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    A Call to Prayer
    A Call to Prayer
    A Call to Prayer
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    A Call to Prayer

    By J. C. Ryle

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    I have a question to offer you. It is contained in three words, Do you pray?


    The question is one that none but you can answer. Whether you attend public worship or not, your minister knows. Whether you have family prayers in your house or not, your relations know. But whether you pray in private or not, is a matter between yourself and God.


    I beseech you in all affection to attend to the subject I bring before you. Do not say that my question is too close. If your heart is right in the sight of God, there is nothing in it to make you afraid. Do not turn off my question by replying that you say your prayers. It is one thing to say your prayers and another to pray. Do not tell me that my question is unnecessary. Listen to me for a few minutes, and I will show you good reasons for asking it.


    I ask whether you pray, because prayer is absolutely needful to a man’s salvation.


    I say, absolutely needful, and I say so advisedly. I am not speaking now of infants or idiots. I am not settling the state of the heathen. I know that where little is given, there little will be required. I speak especially of those who call themselves Christians, in a land like our own. And of such I say, no man or woman can expect to be saved who does not pray.


    CrossReach Publications

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateFeb 7, 2019
    A Call to Prayer
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    J. C. Ryle

    J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) was a prominent writer, preacher, and Anglican clergyman in nineteenth-century England. He is the author of the classic Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and retired as the bishop of Liverpool.

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      Fervent words from a prayerful life. An awakening call for myself. praise the LORD Jesus for this timely and timeless book.

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