Saturday, July 1, 2017

GREAT MEN PRAY



Samuel Ruther ford
Accomplished immeasurable amount
Of work for Christ what was his secret
He rose each morning at three o’clock
To converse with God

Scotland’s quiet night air
Was ladened with anguished cries
Penetrating the darkness as John Welch prayed
Once he remarked his day was ill spent
If he could not stay 8 or 10 hours in secret solitude

It is said of the distinguished and effective
Bishop Andrews that he spent more than
Five hours daily in prayer and bible study
Charles Simeon rose each day from his bunk
To bow on bended knees from four to eight

Martin Luther proclaimed prayer
A saintly work of grave necessity he said
If I fail to spend two hours in prayers each morning
The devil gets the victory through the day
John Wesley’s life epitomized work
He gave his best hours to prayer
The greatest thing anyone can do 
for God and man is prayer

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