The Essentials of Prayer

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Prayer makes a man in his whole being. Prayer makes a man in his total being, mind, soul and body. It is necessary for the entire man to pray, and prayer consolidates the whole man in his blessed effects. As the total human nature begins to pray, so also all that owes to man is the recipient of prayer. What man takes hold furthers himself in prayer. The entire man must surrender himself to God while praying. The biggest effects in praying come to him who offers himself, all of himself, all that owes to himself, to God. This is the undisclosed of whole sanctification, and this is a state of devotional praying, and the kind of praying which yields the biggest rewards.

Edward McKendree Bounds often known as E.M. Bounds, was a U. S. writer, barrister, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is well received for composing 11 books, nine of which centered on the theme of prayer. Only two of his books were distributed before his death. After he died, Rev. Claudius (Claude) Lysias Chilton, Jr., grandson of William Parish Chilton and a follower of Bounds, preserved, kept and prepared the writer’s collection of texts for printing. In 1921, much more editorial work was being completed by Rev. Homer W. Hodge.

Edward McKendree Bounds was born in Shelbyville, Missouri. He is the son of Thomas Jefferson and Hester A. Purnell Bounds. In the preface to E.M. Bounds on Prayer, released by Hendrickson Christian Classics Series more than 90 years after the writer died, it is supposed that young Edward got his name after the preacher, William McKendree, who founded churches in western Missouri and was the fourth bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the fifth child, in a family of three sons and three daughters.
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