WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The world's salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success. The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that "the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him," he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This vital, urgent truth is one that this age of machinery is apt to forget. The forgetting of it is as baneful on the work of God as would be the striking of the sun from his sphere. Darkness, confusion, and death would ensue.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - MEN OF PRAYER NEEDED
Chapter 2 - OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD
Chapter 3 - THE LETTER KILLETH
Chapter 4 - TENDENCIES TO BE AVOIDED
Chapter 5 - PRAYER, THE GREAT ESSENTIAL
Chapter 6 - A PRAYING MINISTRY SUCCESSFUL
Chapter 7 - MUCH TIME SHOULD BE GIVEN TO PRAYER
Chapter 8 - EXAMPLES OF PRAYING MEN
Chapter 9 - BEGIN THE DAY WITH PRAYER
Chapter 10 -PRAYER AND DEVOTION UNITED
Chapter 11 - AN EXMPLE OF DEVOTION
Chapter 12 - HEART PREPARATION NECESSARY
Chapter 13 - GRACE FROM THE HEART RATHER THAN THE HEAD
Chapter 14 - UNCTION A NECESSITY
Chapter 15 - UNCTION, THE MARK OF TRUE GOSPEL PREACHING
Chapter 16 - MUCH PRAYER THE PRICE OF UNCTION
Chapter 17 - PRAYER MARKS SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
Chapter 18 - PREACHERS NEED THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Chapter 19 - DELIBERATION NECESSARY TO LARGEST RESULTS FROM PRAYER
Chapter 20 - A PRAYING PULPIT BEGETS A PRAYING PEW
