It is not the General's brain, or the Officer's weapon that is unworthy,
but the private's! Does this apply to us? Is not PRAYER to the Church
what the bayonet is to the soldier--that which the private member has to
use? Those who cannot preach or write books, or even teach in the Sunday
School, can pray. We ask the question--Are there as many praying-people
in proportion to our numbers as there used to be? What is the testimony
to those who attend our prayer-meetings? Is not this the weak place in
our army to-day?
The bayonet has won the battle many a time over for England, and if we
are weak here, we are weak where we used to be strong. In the war with
the Arabs in Egypt, the squares were sometimes broken. Was that the
fault of the bayonet? England cannot afford to be weak here; nor can
Methodism bear defeat where she has won so many fights. We have many a
time