Excerpt from Five Years of Prayer: With the Answers

Five years ago the Power Of Prayer was pu b lished. It was hailed with wonderful interest in this country and abroad. It was republished in England and Scotland; widely circulated in Wales and Ire land; two translations were printed in France, and anoth er in the East, and more than a hundred thou sand copies distributed and read. In many places in this and foreign countries, public meetings were held and chapters read from it, to quicken the desire and faith Of Christians, and to encourage them in prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In a large number Of villages and rural congregations, revivals of religion followed the reading of these remarkable facts. The author has a letter now in his hands, ad dressed to him from a foreign land, informing him that its perusal had resulted in the conversion of a pastor and a precious revival in his church. Requests for prayer in behalf of individuals and communities have reached him in various languages, and from all parts Of the world where the knowledge has gone Of what God is doing for His people here in answer to their petitions.

That publication was made after the Fulton Street Prayer meeting had been in existence one year. Within that brief season the record was so gracious and glorious as to fill heaven and earth with joy. Now that five years more have passed away, hearing with them the fruits Of Christian labor and prayer, it has seemed to many that duty to Him who hears and answers requires that another report should be made. A vast number Of facts have accumulated which are well authenticated; and, having been tested by time, the genuineness of the results is established.

During the first two or three years Of the history Of the daily prayer-meetin g, the churches in this and other lands cuj oyed great revivals, and the reports Of those years are therefore more full Of the answers to prayer for these gracious manifestations Of Divine power. But during the whole period traversed by these records, God has been daily confirming, by His providence and His grace, the promises of His holy Word, showing that He is at all times waiting to be inquired Of by His people, and is more willing to give His Spirit to them that ask Him than parents are to give bread to their starving children.

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