In Laodicea, of heart-disease, the prayer-meeting. The health of the meeting was poor for a long time, and the life of the prayer-meeting was despaired of. But a few anxious friends kept it alive, and sometimes it would so revive as to encourage them. Discouragement, however, at last prevailed, and the prayer-meeting is dead. It died from neglect of the physician's orders. No one was present when it died. Over forty Christians (?) were living within a mile of it, but most were at home, and some at their neighbors – so it died, and no tears were shed over its death. Had two or three only been there, its life might have been saved, for "where two of you are agreed as touching anything that they ask, it shall be done for them." Two-thirds of the forty might have been there, had they been so disposed; but they were not. If actions be allowed to speak the prayer-meeting has few mourning friends. Oh, what will become of the Laodiceans ? Selected