PRAYER— it’s Power to Soften Asperities. – Charles Spurgeon

” Two neighbours, a cooper and a farmer, were spending the evening together. Both were professors of religion, but of different communions. Their conversation was first upon topics relating to praciicid religion, but after a time it diverged to the points of difference bcheon the two denominations to which they belonged. It first became a discussion, and then a dispute. The cooper was the first to perceive its unprofitable and injurious tendency, and remarked, ‘We are springing apart from each other, let us put on another hoop— let us pray.’ They kneeled down and prayed together, after which they spent the remainder of the evening lovingly together, con- versing on the things of the kingdom in which they both felt an equal interest. The suggestion of the cooper was an excellent one, and it were well if it were acted on more frequently by those who, like him, are members of the household of Christ.”