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Prayer and Works

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 4.

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Prayer and Works.

PRAYER and works must go together. The one is the complement of the other. Not that God needs our help to accomplish his purposes, but, where results are to be reached by human instrumentality, he expects the means to be used.
The Christian Review tells the following by way of illustration: Dr. Macleod and Dr. Watson were crossing a lake together, in the West Highlands, in company with a number of persons, when a storm came on with terrible force. One of the passengers was heard to say, “The two ministers should begin to pray, or we will all be drowned.” “Na, na,” said the boatman, “the little ane can pray if he likes, but the big ane maun tak’ an oar.”