Profit of Prayer

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1863

PROFIT OF PRAYER.—After prayer is not the heart lighter and the soul happier? Prayer renders affliction less sorrowful, and joy more pure. It mingles with the one an unspeakable sweetness, and adds to the other a celestial perfume. Sometimes there passes over the fields a wind which parches the plants, and then their withered stems will droop toward the earth;

but watered by the dew, they regain their freshness, and lift up their languishing heads. So there are always burning winds, which pass over the soul, and wither it. Prayer is the dew which refreshes it again.