The Rich Freight of Prayer
MR. SPURGEON has a fine thought on prayer. He says, "It may be your prayer is like a ship, which, when it goes on a very long voyage, does not come home laden so soon; but when it does come home it has a richer freight. Mere coasters will bring you coals or such like ordinary things, but they that go far to Tarshish return with gold and ivory. Coasting prayers, such as we pray every day, bring us many necessaries, but there are great prayers which, like the old Spanish galleons, cross the main ocean and are longer out of sight, to come home deep-laden with a golden freight."—The Christian Worker.