The Reality of Prayer _EDITED BY HOMER W. HODGE_ The Spiritual Life Books By EDWARD M. BOUNDS _The Possibilities of Prayer._ Cloth $1.25 A rich, exceptionally helpful addition to Doctor Bounds’ books, which deal with the place and significance prayer has in the life of the believer. _Heaven_: A Place—A City—A Home. Cloth $1.25 Possessed of a wonderfully full knowledge of Holy Scripture, a man of unswerving faith and mystical insight, Mr. Bounds writes with a certitude, confidence and joyous anticipation of the eternal felicity awaiting the faithful believer. _Purpose in Prayer._ Cloth $1.25 “Mr. Bounds has the gift of insight, and with this a faculty for selecting words to express precisely that which responds to the heart-hunger of those who are seeking spiritual enlightenment.” —_Sunday School Times._ _Satan_: His Personality, His Power, His Overthrow. Cloth $1.25 With irrefutable logic backed by the testimony of Holy Scripture, it shows the Arch Enemy of mankind to be a Person—actual, literal, ever active for the destruction of human souls. Indicates whereby Christian believers can withstand his assaults and how they may finally triumph. The Reality of Prayer By EDWARD M. BOUNDS, D.D. _Author of “Purpose in Prayer,” “The Possibilities of Prayer,” “Heaven,” “Satan,” etc._ EDITED BY HOMER W. HODGE NEW YORK CHICAGO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH Copyright, 1924, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street Foreword During the last twenty-five years of the nineteenth century and a score of years of the twentieth, there lived and died three great men of God whom I knew—men whom God has doubtless numbered among the foremost of His heavenly host. The first was Edward McKendree Bounds, author of this present volume and the other “Spiritual Life” Books. The second was Claud L. Chilton, minister for many years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a musical composer of religious music of considerable note. The third, Clement C. Cary, preacher and editor, lost his life in an automobile accident in 1922. The fourth was Dr. B. F. Haynes, minister, editor and author, who died in Nashville, in 1923.