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Prayer-Meetings: Quotations from Burning Words

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.— JOHN NEWTON

"How do you make your prayer-meetings interesting?" The whole subject is mixed up. "Interesting" to whom? The Lord? The suppliants? The spectators? The only way is to teach men to pray; to eliminate those who preach or rhapsodize or scold or "lament” interminably, to promote general fervor among the people, and apply to the meeting the ordinary principles of common sense. -— JOHN HALL

And it came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew near. A short speech with a man behind it, and with truth in it truth that you back up by your life, that is what is needed in the prayer-meeting.— THE NATIONAL BAPTIST