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 Would it not be a good plan to be of one mind to take hold of a rope? You have seen men pulling on a cable. All get on the rope. If all pull one way, they move a great weight. But suppose one turns his face another way: they won't move much. Now in a class-meeting, if we are of one mind, and that mind the salvation of men's souls, can we not do a great work? Jesus says you can move a mountain. You can ask God for any service; you can ask God to convert any young man. He will do it.

"What a great comfort it is when a young man or woman who desires his salvation may come and see there are so many prayers going up in their behalf. God will answer prayer. God will take the sinner out of his own ways; 'he will place a new song in his mouth.'

"Any person that don't pray, can't be comfortable. By praying, a man or woman in the dark hours of midnight feels comforted when he wrestles with God. Some of you have witnessed this. Waking up in the night,—you get up in the dark, you wrestle with God in a sorrow and prayer, and he answers your prayer. You feel comfort in the Holy Spirit. But a person that don't pray can't feel comfortable. Ask a sinner man or sinner woman, ask him if a pain strikes him; he is not comfortable. But the child of God can bear the pain with comfort. The first