It is easier to fill the head than it is to prepare the heart. It is easier to make a brain sermon than a heart sermon. It was heart that drew the Son of God from heaven. It is heart that will draw men to heaven. Men of heart is what the world needs to sympathize with its woe, to kiss away its sorrows, to compassionate its misery, and to alleviate

Study not to be a fine preacher. Jerichos are blown down with rams' horns. Look simply unto Jesus for preaching food; and what is wanted will be given, and what is given will be blessed, whether it be a barley grain or a wheaten loaf, a crust or a crumb. Your mouth will be a flowing stream or a fountain sealed, according as your heart is. Avoid all

Our great need is heart-preparation. Luther held it as an axiom: "He who has prayed well has studied well."

Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying.

When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy. -- Richard Newton

Prayer is not a little habit pinned on to us while we were tied to our mother's apron strings; neither is it a little decent quarter of a minute's grace said over an hour's dinner, but it is a most serious work of our most serious years. It engages more of time and appetite than our longest dinings or richest feasts.

• Conditions of Prevailing Prayer 1. Contrite humility before God and forsaking of sin.—2 Chron. 7:14. 2. Seeking God with the whole heart.—Jer. 29:12, 13. 3. Faith in God.—Mark 11:23, 24. 4. Obedience.—1 John 3:22. 5. Dependence on the Holy Spirit.—Rom. 8:26. 6. Importunity.—Mark 7:24-30; Luke 11:5-10. 7. Must ask in accordance with God's will.—1

Mary Slessor gave, when asked to tell what prayer had meant to her. "My life," she wrote, "is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers everted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that

The memory of a dishonest transaction flashed into his mind. He saw at once how it was that his prayers were not answered, but "returned into his own bosom," as the Scripture phrase puts it.