Purpose in Prayer

The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer in one phase of its operation is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. Prayer is no fitful shortlived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.