Long discursive dry and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.

Our devotions are not measured by the clock but time is of the essence. The ability to wait and stay and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.

The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack but the praying must be in the body and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty put into a corner no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life but it means that the best of our time the heart of our time and strength must be given.

Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better not new organizations or more and novel methods but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods but through men. He does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans but men -- men of prayer.

Spiritual work is taxing work and men are loath to do it. Praying true praying costs an outlay of serious attention and of time which flesh and blood do not relish.

Talking to men for God is a great thing but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

The Church is looking for better methods God is looking for better men.