The Path of Prayer by Samuel Chadwick

PRAYER IS THE ACID TEST OF TRUE DEVOTION, so let Samuel Chadwick rekindle your passion for a life of prayer! Pastor Jim Cymbala of Brooklyn Tabernacle writes: "The Path of Prayer is a very special book about a vital subject. Most books on prayer only inform the mind, but Samuel Chadwick both instructs the intellect and inspires the heart to meet God at the throne of grace. I thank God for this precious volume for it has greatly affected my life and ministry."

As the young pastor of a self-satisfied English congregation in the 1880's, Samuel Chadwick was so frustrated over his lack of power in the pulpit that he collected his sermons in a pile and set fire to them. The result was immediate: the Holy Spirit fell on him. The new vitality in his preaching was evident in his very next sermon, at which seven people came to Christ. Within a few years his reputation had grown to the point that the chapel was full a half-hour before the service, and police had to be called in to control the crowds. In his final years as principal of a training school for preachers, he wrote his most well-known book, The Way to Pentecost, which was being printed when he died in 1932.