- Because the greatest and best of all my friends has appointed it as the place where I may have an interview with Him.
- Because I cannot think of a better place—a place of greater honour, profit, and safety for the time.
- Because my attendance on that prayer-meeting was included in the vows I took upon me when I pledged myself to be a servant of God.
- Because my absence will be noticed with sadness by the faithful saints, and may greatly dishearten them.
- Because my unnecessary absence will comfort Satan in the prospect of success in his next assault upon me.
- Because impenitent sinners and back-sliders will comfort themselves over my neglect, and follow my bad example.
- Because my faithful attendance is one of the links in that chain of influence which I need to bind me fast and firm to my divine Lord.
Therefore, I must go to the prayer-meeting. I wish to go. I shall be happy in going. No matter who fails, it must not, it shall not, be I.
—Christian Treasury.