It is with the purpose and hope that some seeking heart may be helped that these pages are penned. The author has purposely avoided all controversial matter. We would not assume the role of the doctrinaire even were we capable of it. "Not controversy, not theology, but to save souls," as Lyman Beecher said when dying. THE NEED OF SPEED. This book has been written in the midst of laborious and unceasing revival work. For this reason there has been no time to polish sentences nor improve style. The object has been to get the truth to the people in plain language, and to do it with despatch, for the time is short, and men are being saved or damned with electric speed. THE BUZZARD AND VULTURE. The buzzard and the vulture will find food if they look for it, but with them we are not concerned. We are, however, terribly in earnest to help hungry souls to a place of blessing and power. May God take these leaves and make them "leaves of healing," if not for "nations," at least for individuals. BYRON J. REES. NOVEMBER 14, 1898. CONTENTS. DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PREFACE CHRIST'S PRAYER CHAPTER I. A Word in the Prayer CHAPTER II. Some Errors CHAPTER III. Those for Whom Christ Prayed CHAPTER IV. Christ's Prayer Answered CHAPTER V. Christian Unity CHAPTER VI. Fearlessness CHAPTER VII. Responsiveness to Christ CHAPTER VIII. Soul-Rest CHAPTER IX. Prayerfulness CHAPTER X. Success CHAPTER XI. Growth in Christliness of Life EXPERIENCE CHRIST'S PRAYER: "SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THE TRUTH; THY WORD IS TRUTH." CHAPTER I. A WORD IN THE PRAYER. CHRIST'S WORDS. All who really love Christ love His words. They may not always fully understand their meaning, but they never reject any of them. The very fact that any word has been on the lips of Christ and received His sanction, gives it a sound of music to all who are truly disciples of the Nazarene. MOTHER'S WORDS. The words that your mother used frequently--are there any words quite the same to you? She may be resting under the solemn pines of a silent cemetery, but, to this hour, if anyone uses one of her favorite words, instantly the heart leaps in answer, and the mind flies back to her, and the fancy paints her as you knew her in the garden or at the fireside or by the window. It lies in the power of a single word to make the eyes fill and the throat ache because of its association with the voice of a queenly mother. A MAN'S TESTIMONY. Thus it is with Christ and HIS words. It matters not where we meet the word, if it is Christ's we are touched and made tender. An aged man stands in a prayer-meeting in a bare and cheerless hall, and says in broken and faltering voice, "The dear Lord has blessedly SANCTIFIED my heart," and like a flash the room lightens, and the whole place seems changed and made cheery. The heart cries, "That is my Master's word," and the entire being is attentive and interested. JESUS' LIFE DEAR.