PRAYER-MEETINGS by Christian Intelligencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 6, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 14.

PRAYER-MEETINGS.

By Christian Intelligencer

An active business man once remarked: "Attendance at the prayer-meeting is a part of my business. I consider it as much my duty to be present, as to meet any business engagement." We hold him up as an example. But he might have put it yet stronger, and said that he considered it more of a duty to be at a prayer-meeting than to meet any business engagement, on the ground for which we contend that religious engagements justly claim the pre-eminence. They should come first on the weekly list. Let this rule be adopted and conscientiously observed by all church-members, and there will be less occasion for a discussion of the questions: How shall we reach the masses? How shall we reach non-church-goers? Get Christians to show the same fidelity in fulfilling the religious engagements into which they solemnly entered when they took upon them the sacred vows of church membership that they exhibit in their secular engagements, and churches and preachers will never be without audiences.

—Christian Intelligencer.