One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.