WHAT PRAYER COSTS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 26, 1892

WHAT PRAYER COSTS.

"I want you to spend fifteen minutes every day praying for foreign missions," said the pastor to some young people in his congregation. "But beware how you pray, for I warn you that it is a very costly experiment." "Costly?" they asked in surprise. "Aye, costly," he cried. "When Carey began to pray for the conversion of the world, it cost him himself, and it cost those who prayed with him very much. Brainerd prayed for the dark-skinned savage, and after two years of blessed work it cost him his life.

"Two students of Mr. Moody's summer school began to pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth more servants into his harvest; and, lo, it is going to cost our country five thousand young men and women, who have, in answer to this prayer, pledged themselves to the work! Be sure it is a dangerous thing to pray in earnest for this work; you will find that you cannot pray and withhold your money; nay, that your very life will no longer be your own, when your prayers begin to be answered."—Apostolic Guide.