Every Christian reader is invited to join in the following prayer, which was written by a member of the China Inland Mission:
Send Thou, O Lord, to every place
Swift messengers before Thy face,
The heralds of Thy wondrous grace,
Where Thou, Thyself, wilt come.
Send men whose eyes have seen the King,
Men in whose ears His sweet words ring,
Send such Thy lost ones home to bring:
Send them where Thou wilt come—
To bring good news to souls in sin,
The bruised and broken hearts to win,
In every place to bring them in,
Where Thou, Thyself, wilt come.
Gird each one with the Spirit’s sword,
The sword of Thine own deathless Word,
And make them conquerors, conquering Lord,
Where Thou, Thyself, wilt come.
Raise up, O Lord the Holy Ghost,
From this broad land a mighty host,
Their war cry—We will seek the lost,
Where Thou, O Christ, wilt come!
The past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for doing great things for God. The church that is dependent on its past history for its miracles of power and grace is a fallen church….
The greatest benefactor this age could have is the man who will bring the teachers and the church back to prayer.
E. M. Bounds, in Power Through Prayer