I Believe there is great blessing attending family-prayer, and I feel greatly distressed, because I know that very many Christian families neglect it. Romanism, at one time, could do nothing in England, because it could offer nothing but the shadow of what Christian men had already in substance."Do you hear that bell tinkling in the morning? What is that for?" "To go to church to pray.""Indeed!" said the puritan, "I have no need to go there to pray. I have had my children together, and we have read a portion of Scripture, and prayed, and sang the praises of God, and we have a church in our house." "Ah ! there goes that bell again in the evening. What is that for?" "Why, it is the vesper-bell." The good man answered that he had no need to trudge a mile or two for that, for his holy vespers had been said and sung around his own table, of which the big Bible was the chief ornament. They told him that there could be no service without a priest, but he replied that every godly man should be a priest in his own house. Thus have the saints defied the overtures of priest-craft, and kept the faith from generation to generation.