The Bell Rope

I was working in a word.doc tonight, and hit paste. I thought I had copied some of my notes on Ephesians 6, but I was encouraged by what appeared! Apparently my wife had copied the below E.M. Bounds quote a little earlier. I found it a blessing.

"'Good Prayers,' says an old divine, 'never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask. Prayer pulls the rope below, and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly: others give but an occasional pull at the rope: but he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continually with all his might.' That is the best kind of bell ringing--ringing the bells of heaven--making a sensation in the world celestial and pulling the power down upon the world terrestrial. Reader, do you know how to handle the bell rope, to pull it vigorously and constantly? We know some that do. Hell trembles when they seize the rope." - E.M. Bounds