Meetings

Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead.

If we kept up prayer-meetings four-and-twenty hours in the day, all the days in the
year, we might never be without a special subject for supplication.

When week-night services are badly attended, farewell to the life of godliness.

I pray the Lord to send you a horse-whip in the shape of trouble in your conscience
till you do come, for it very much weakens us all in our prayers when our numbers
decline; and whenever people come to despise week-night services, be sure of it,
farewell to the vital power of godliness, for week-night services are very, very much
the stamp of the man. Any hypocrite will come on a Sunday, but a man does need to
take some interest in religious services to be found mingling with the people of God
in prayer.


From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon