A Good Prayer-Meeting by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

A Good Prayer-Meeting.

By Editor

Dr. Cuyler is a thoughtful, plain-speaking man. His communications to the press are among the most valuable to be found. Under the head of "Prayer-Meetings—Marred or Mended," he writes a good article in the Independent, from which we take the following:—

"It commonly requires the presence of several sensible people to make a good prayer-meeting; but it is in the power of one or two weak-headed and troublesome people to mar it most wretchedly. Certainly persons of this kind will come into a meeting as moths fly into a candle. They stick there like the moth; but, instead of being scorched to death, they nearly extinguish the meeting. Now, it is the imperative duty of the pastor, or of the conductor of the meeting, to deal with such brethren most frankly. If self-conceit makes the brother so troublesome, then that self-conceit should be kindly rebuked. If he offend ignorantly, then his ignorance should be kindly corrected. The man who has not enough sense or conscience to take a wise hint gratefully will never be of any value to a devotional meeting."