“Such is the importance of the Christian ministry, that we are constrained to solicit for it one particular favor. It is a request in which we feel a deep personal concern, Pray for us. ‘Pray for us,’ says Paul; pray for us is the hearty response from every Christian pulpit in the land, and in the wide world. If the prayers of good men were solicited by such a man as Paul; and if, with his giant intellect, his eminent spirituality, and his intimate communion with God and things unseen, this holy man needed this encouragement and impulse in his work, who will not say ‘Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified!’ [2 Thessalonians 3:1]” - Gardiner Spring, Brethren, Pray For Us (1849)