If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. Rouse them to incessant supplication. There is a holy art in it. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you; and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Cookies, Desserts	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sifted flour
1	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Non-fat dry milk powder
1/2	tb	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1/4	c	Sifted cocoa
1		Egg; lightly beaten
1/2	c	Melted butter
1/4	c	Water
1	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350F. Mix flour, sugar, powdered milk, baking powder, salt
and cocoa together and sift well. Beat in remainder of ingredients, adding
a little more water if needed to make a smooth dough. Drop from a teaspoon
onto a well-greased baking sheet, spacing cookies 2 inches apart, and bake
12-to-15 minutes until lightly browned around the edges. Let cool 1-to-2
minutes on sheets, then lift to wire racks to cool.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed! #A.J. Gossip”