POWER OF PRAYER | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 29.

POWER OF PRAYER.

WHEN Moody first visited Oxford, England, the first night of his meeting he was received by the students with derisive shouts, which drowned his voice. It was a little better the second night. But he then gathered a company of praying mothers, who unitedly sent up prayer and supplication to God, who has the hearts of all men in his hand, and can turn them as the rivers of water; and the third night fifty students rose for prayer, and Moody wrote, "It was not the preaching, it was not Sankey's sweet singing, it was the prayers of the mothers that did it."

Yes, with prayers and supplications like those preceding the pentecostal blessing, like results would still follow, and thousands be added to the church of the saved. The faithfulness of God is concerned in answering such prayers; and the history of the church testifies that in every age the church can sing, as did the Psalmist of Israel, "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications."—Methodist Protestant.