ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PASTORS (BY SPURGEON) NOT ONE CONVERSTION IS OF YOU

A certain preacher, whose sermons converted men by scores, received a revelation from heaven that not one of the conversions was owing to his talents or eloquence, but all to the prayers of an illiterate lay brother, who sat on the pulpit steps, pleading all the time for the success of the sermon. It may in the all-revealing day be so with us.

 

We may discover, after having labored long and wearily in preaching that all the honor belongs to another builder whose prayers were gold, silver, and precious stones, while our sermonizing, being apart from prayer, were but hay and stubble.