Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
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The Necessity of Prayer, by Edward M. Bounds, is a compelling book on our desperate need to live lives of prayer. Bounds passionately urges the body of Christ to pray as he proclaims, "Prayer should be the chief attraction for all spiritually minded church-goers," and, "Any church calling itself the house of God, and failing to magnify prayer; which does not put prayer in the forefront of its activities ...should change its teaching to conform to the Divine pattern or change [it's] name." The Necessity of Prayer is a timeless Christian Classic that will strengthen your knees and hands, breathing fresh courage, strength, and fervency into your prayer life--reminding you of your desperate need for prayer.
Only two of Bounds' books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius (Claud) Lysias Chilton, Jr., grandson of William Parish Chilton and admirer of Bounds, worked on preserving and preparing Bounds' collection of manuscripts for publication. By 1921 more editorial work was being done by Rev. Homer W. Hodge. Chilton said of his books: "These books are unfailing wells for a lifetime of spiritual water-drawing.They are hidden treasures, wrought in the darkness of dawn and the heat of the noon, on the anvil of experience,and beaten into wondrous form by the mighty stroke of the divine. They are living voices whereby he, being dead, yet speaketh!"