If not, why not? Or am I one of those who cannot point to direct answers
to pleading prayer, because I never did plead? Is there not a cause?
Look at what James has said in his epistle, iv. 2-4. Is not this
"friendship with the world" the cause of this feebleness in prayer? We
want all that we can get in pleasure and self-indulgence, and to see our
church become a power also. The two things cannot be. This kind goeth
not out but by prayer and fasting, and if we wish to see England won to
Christ we must become reliable in prayer.