“No maxim is more true than that familiar one — a praying people makes a preaching minister. If then, you would have your pastor come to you with sermons, full of thoughts that pierce and words that burn, PRAY FOR HIM:— pray affectionately, earnestly, continuously.” — John McKnight, Jr. (1789-1857), Charge to the Church and Congregation at the Ordination of Andrew Harris, Pastor of the Second African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1841)