How They Prayed Volume One

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“How They Prayed Volume One”

“Prayers are deathless!” So wrote Lillian G. Harvey in foreword to “How They Prayed Volume One”, the first in a series published by Harvey Christian Publishers and written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. This first volume tells of how family members prayed for each other–wives for their husbands and husbands for their wives; children for their parents and parents for their children.


And grandparents who prayed for their posterity are not forgotten either. Edwin and Lillian Harvey present practical examples of household praying. For those of us who are tempted to grow weary of praying, perhaps because of ill health, or lack of faith, or simply because our prayers are not seeming to be answered, these books will encourage us to keep on praying. All three books on prayer are found in Harvey Christian Publisher’s Online Christian Bookstore. The following poem concludes the first chapter of “How They Prayed Volume One”:

So long as there are homes to which men turn,
At close of day;
So long as there are homes where children are,
Where women stay–
If love and loyalty and faith be found
Across those sills–
A stricken nation can recover from
Its gravest Ills.

So long as there are homes where fires burn
And there is bread;
So long as there are homes where lamps are lit;
And prayers are said–
Although people falter through the dark,
And nations grope–
With God Himself back of these homes,
We have sure hope.

–Grace Crowell (page 10)

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