GROWING IN GRACE - Horation Sonar

James 5:17-18

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.subject…: of the same nature, that is, a fellow mortal earnestly: or, in his prayer, 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

    "In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society - even Christian society - that the soul grows more vigorously. In one single, quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest  and the air is purest." H. Bonar