Jedediah Burchard, the brilliant evangelist of the middle years
of the nineteenth century, who swept like a flame over New York
and New England, was holding great prayer-meetings at Danbury,
Conn., before his preaching services. At one of these crowded
prayer services, when many were asking prayers for unsaved
relatives and friends, and a young man had earnestly besought
prayer for an aged father, a blatant infidel who haunted the
meetings simply to interrupt, jumped up and said, “Mr. Burchard!
I want to ask prayers for--the Devil!” “Go right on praying,
brethren,” said Mr. Burchard, “this man also wants his father
prayed for!” That interrupter never again was heard of at a
meeting.
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