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The Fundamentals hear a word, spent all the time in prayer for the preacher and individual hearers. In the biography of Charles G. Finney similar facts are recorded of “Father Nash,” Abel Cleary, and others. Examples might be multiplied indefinitely. But the one thing we would make prominent is this: God is summoning His people to prayer. He wills that “men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting” ; that, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. (1 Tim. 2 :8 .) If this be done first of all, every other most blessed result will follow. God waits to be asked. In Him are the fountains of blessing and He puts at the disposal of His praying saints all their abundance; they are, however, sealed fountains to the ungodly and the unbe lieving. There is one key that always unlocks even heaven’s gates; one secret that puts connecting channels between those eternal fountains and ourselves. That key, that secret, is prevailing prayer. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer there are so few who actually give themselves unto interces sion. This is represented as being a matter even of Divine wonderment: “And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, That stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee” (Isa. 64:7). The very fact that so many disciples, and in so many parts of the world, are forming prayer circles or unions is itself a great incentive to increased and united prayer. « TRUE PRAYER Our Lord taught a great lesson in Matthew 18:19. He said: “If two of you shall agree [symphonize] on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven.” The agreement re-
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