April 4

CT)RAYER is the certain forerunner of salvation. Sinner, thou canst not pray and perish; prayer and perishing are two things that never go together. T ask you not what your prayer is; it may be a groan, it may be a tear, but if it be a prayer from the inmost heart thou shalt be saved; yet if from thine heart thou hast learned to pray —

“Prayer is the breath of God in man,
Returning whence it came” —

And thou canst not perish with God’s breath in thee. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!”