I'm going to break away from Smith Wigglesworth for a few days to share some other quotes I've found recently.
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) is called "The Prince of Preachers". He pastored what was then the world's largest Protestant church and the first megachurch, Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. This is a quote from the biography Charles Spurgeon, by J.C. Carlile, his friend and biographer.
The conversion of his hearers was the constant aim of his ministry, and therefore the constant result of it. . . His often-quoted rejoinder to his first student came from his own experience. When Medhurst complained that he was not having conversions, Spurgeon said in assumed surprise: "But you do not expect conversions every time you preach, do you?" "Oh, no, of course not!" "And that is why you do not have them!"
Ye have not because Ye ask not?
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