by
S. D. Gordon
Author of "Quiet Talks on Power," and "Quiet Talks about Jesus", etc.
Copyright, 1904, by Fleming H. Revell Company
Contents
Table Of Contents
A. The Meaning and Mission of Prayer 1. Prayer the Greatest Outlet of Power 2. Prayer the Deciding Factor in a Spirit Conflict 3. The Earth, the Battle-Field in Prayer 4. Does Prayer Influence God?
B. Hindrances to Prayer 5. Why the Results Fail 6. Why the Results are Delayed 7. The Great Outside Hindrance
C. How to Pray 8. The "How" of Relationship 9. The "How" of Method 10. The Listening Side of Prayer 11. Something about God's Will in Connection with Prayer 12. May We Pray with Assurance for the Conversion of Our Loved Ones
D. Jesus' Habits of Prayer 13. A Pen Sketch 14. Dissolving Views 15. Deepening Shadows 16. Under the Olive Trees 17. A Composite Picture
18. Footnotes
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As a young man, he was hard working , consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86 so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period.
An incessant and tireless itinerant, Gordon never lacked for opportunities to preach. He never called himself a preacher, preferring the title of lecturer. In a real sense he was unique. His manner of speaking, never dull, always illustrated by parabolic stories, had gripping power to hold the attention and stir the heart.
Samuel Dickey Gordon was a popular speaker and writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He was born in Philadelphia August 12, 1859. As a young man, he was hard working, consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86 so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period.
Gordon never lacked for opportunities to preach. He wrote more than two-dozen devotional books, most with the phrase "Quiet Talks" in the title.