“Prayer is sure work and the harbinger of blessing. So I have found in 46 years’ pilgrimage. It has been a comfort to me to think so, though I have been reminded of an even more precious truth that if prayer be a channel of blessing, the spring is in God and the fountain of blessing, Christ Jesus. The blessings flow down freely. Often what sets us praying for more is a first dropping of His rich love and grace.
“I have been preaching this evening from 1 John 4, showing what the gospel was, which John wanted us to hold fast in these last days. I have thought of late that we live too far off from Him our fretting because of evildoers is a proof of it.”
G. V. Wigram (excerpt of a letter, 1870)