Emphasis Preaching Journal

One evening in 1883, a London physician by the name of Wilfred T. Grenfell made his way home down a dark street, having just tended to a maternity case. He passed a great tent on the way and thought it might be a circus. On closer inspection he discovered that a huge crowd had gathered for some kind of service. He decided to stay a while. An old man was praying when he entered. The long, boring prayer convinced him he had made a mistake.