Saturday, September 5, 2009

barren of spiritual results

…Pray to Him; call upon His holy name; make known His wonderful work among the people. Prayer and preaching must go together. A sermon without prayer may be a perfect specimen of homiletic effort; it may be a marvelous piece of rhetoric; it may be a correct ethical discourse, or an admirable philosophical essay; it may be amusing, entertaining, and instructive; and yet, without the power that comes from prayer, it will be barren of spiritual results.


Doctrine and Covenants Commentary by Hyrum M. Smith and Janne M. Sjodahl. Deseret Book. 1965. p.398

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