The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.