HOW TO MAKE PRAYER-MEETINGS INTERESTING

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1877

HOW TO MAKE PRAYER-MEETINGS INTERESTING.

Prepare for the meeting, and do not rush into it with your heart filled with the world.
Be interested yourself in it, and then it will be interesting.
Do not expect others to arouse you from your lethargy and interest you, but seek to arouse others, and to interest them.
Go there to worship God, to pray to him, and to sing praises and to commune with him and with your fellow-Christians.
Exercise your mind in the service, and be not lifeless.
Do not criticise others in what they do or say.
Do not indulge in a fault-finding spirit.
Do not occupy much time in speaking; but very few words are needed, and those should be earnest and very spiritual as well as edifying.
Let every one be present and punctual.
Join in the singing.
Do not take the back seat, or that farthest from the leader of the meeting.
Take some part yourself in the meeting, and it will be interesting to you.

If you observe these directions you will not complain of uninteresting prayer-meetings.—Christian Intelligencer.