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The book cover, with the words HEALTH HEALING AND FAITH embossed in gold at the top and the words CONWELL LIBRARY embossed at the bottom on the dark red background

Health,
Healing, and Faith

By
RUSSELL H. CONWELL

VOLUME 8

NATIONAL
EXTENSION UNIVERSITY
597 Fifth Avenue, New York


EFFECTIVE PRAYER
——
Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America


FOREWORD

That prayers are answered nearly all the human race believe. But thesubject has been beclouded and often made ridiculous by inconsistentsuperstitions.

This book is a modest attempt to clear up some of the errors. Its recordis as accurate as impartial observation can make it. God is not bribed.Laziness cannot bargain with him. But the prayers of the righteous andof repentant sinners availeth much.

Desired ends are gained by prayer which cannot be gained by any othermethod. The daily experiences of devout persons establish that factconclusively. The reasons and the methods which produce the results seemhidden, and they often bewilder the investigator. God's thoughts are farabove our thoughts. But we can trust our daily experience far enough toretain our confidence in the potency of prayer. It is, therefore, aprofitable and comforting study.

Russell H. Conwell.


EFFECTIVE PRAYER

Chapter I
Effect of Environment

THE fascinating history of events connected with the Baptist Temple,Philadelphia, through thirty-nine years must be recorded carefully toobtain the credence of those readers who live out of the locality. Itmay or may not be that the unusual demonstrations of power, seeminglydivine, were not incited or influenced by the special environment. Yetthe critical reader may reasonably inquire where these things occurredin order to determine the power of association on the form and effect ofprayer.

The Baptist Temple is a somewhat imposing building on the corner ofNorth Broad and Berks streets in Philadelphia. It is located almost atthe geographical center of Philadelphia, and eighteen squares north ofthe City Hall. The Temple is architecturally very plain, and thebeautiful stained-glass windows are about the only ornaments in thegreat hall save, of course, the pipes of the great organ. The church isone hundred and seven feet front, and is one hundred and fifty feet inlength. There is a deep gallery occupying three sides, with a chorusgallery, back of the pulpit, seating one hundred and fifty singers.There are three thousand and thirty-four opera chairs arranged in asemicircle, and every person in the congregation can see clearly theplatform and chorus, and each normal worshiper can be heard from thepulpit.

The building itself is a testimonial to the effectiveness of sincereprayer. The Temple and the halls in the lower story, as it now stands,are far beyond the dreams of that little company of earnest worshiperswho, in 1880, hesitatingly and embarrassed, began

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