his prayer” (James 5:17, A.V. margin). Of some men it is said that they live in an atmosphere of devotion; but it is one thing to live in an atmosphere of prayer, and another to “pray in our praying.” Finney went to a weekly prayer-meeting, where they prayed much and got no answers. Müller prayed and answers came, and that is why all men believed him to be a man of God. When I was a very small boy, not more than six or seven years of age, I was sent on an errand to the house of a neighbour named