JETS 39:1 (March 1996) p. 88 all the assembled people are being addressed by God concerning their particular needs and sins. If Spurgeon is right and there is a young man with stolen gloves, the young man knows it and gets addressed very particularly. If Spurgeon is wrong (which he may be in his fallibility) there is no one who is so addressed, but the general lesson for the whole congregation remains. Moreover we can pray for a situation without knowing for certain whether the situation is exactly