Prayer-Meetings not to be Given Up
Acts 1:12-14
Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.…


A pious woman, when it was decided to close the prayer-meeting in a certain village, declared that it should not be, for she would be there if no one else was. True to her word, when, the next morning, some one said to her jestingly, "Did you have a prayer-meeting last night? Ah, that we did," she replied. "How many were present?" "Four," she said. "Why," said he, "I heard that you were there all alone." "No," she said; "I was the only one visible; but the Father was there, and the Son was there, and the Holy Spirit was there, and we were all agreed in prayer." Before long others took shame themselves at the earnest perseverance of this poor woman, the prayer-meeting was revived and the church prospered.

(W. Baxendale.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

WEB: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.




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