Making many glad - Baker - XVI - Chapter 10 (Labours as an evangelist - pastorate at Holly Springs) continued

--> Required reading
Making many glad: The life and labours of Daniel Baker by William M. Baker (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 10 (Labours as an evangelist - pastorate at Holly Springs) by reading up to the paragraph commencing 'During almost the whole of Dr. Baker's residence in Holly Springs, two of his were at Princeton, prosecuting their studies for the ministry.'

My summary
Among other things, today we hear about:
(i) further results from Baker's preaching, including their permanency;
(ii) Baker's seeking of wisdom in his frequent important moves;
(iii) Baker's habits of prayer, both corporate and private;
(iv) the conversion of one of Baker's sons and the provision of God for that son to go to Princeton for ministry training.

What grabbed me
I was interested to read about Baker's prayers: 'Those who have followed this man of God as he led the way to the Throne of Grace, will remember that he trod as along a path familiar to his feet. He greatly disliked making public prayer a mode of exhortation, or statement of any kind, or of decorating it with flowers and figures of speech. He regarded prayer as addressed to God, and in no sense to the people; and he endeavoured to clothe his addresses at the mercy-seat in words left by the Spirit on the page of Scripture. The fulness, scriptural richness, heartfelt simplicity, and sincerity of his public prayers, no one who knew him can ever forget. In the prayer-meeting, at the family altar, in the sick-room, at the meetings of church judicatories, his prayers were always adapted to the peculiar circumstances. Whenever he led in "worship, he stood as if with his foot upon the step of the Throne — as if with his hand grasping the priestly robe of the great High Priest — not familiar or irreverent in the least degree, yet coming boldly to the Throne of Grace — with him the alone source of all blessing — for this express and only purpose, that he might obtain mercy, and find grace to help in that special time of need.'

I've often thought while reading this biography that I would have liked to have heard Baker preach. 

I now think that I would also have liked to hear Baker pray.

Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 10 (Labours as an evangelist - pastorate at Holly Springs).

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.