WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE PRAYER MEETING?
(Our beloved brother, George Verwer, has made available to us an article which he was asked to write for the magazine MOODY MONTHLY. Here is a part of that article. It accentuates a pressing need among God’s people today. ) ONE of God’s great men of past years, Samuel Chadwick, taught that Satan’s greatest aim was to destroy our prayer lives. Satan is not afraid of prayerless study, prayerless work, or prayerless religion … but he will tremble when we pray. If Chadwick was correct (and hundreds of other great men of God have said similar things), then we are really in trouble. If there is any part of our church life that seems to be in trouble, it is the prayer meeting. In fact, in an increasing number of churches, for all practical purposes, there is no such meeting. There is no lack of books on prayer, and most pastors preach on prayer once in a while. If there is any doctrine to which we pay only lip service, it has to be the doctrine of prayer. In ministering in thousands of chur
