“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.” — Thomas Brainerd, The Gospel Honourable to Its Advocates: A Sermon, by the Rev. Thomas Brainerd, at the Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Andrew Harris (1841)