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Edward McKendree Bounds was a Methodist minister, revivalist, author and lawyer. Unsuccessful in the California gold rush of 1849, E.M. Bounds returned home to Missouri and became the state’s youngest practicing attorney at age 19. In his early twenties he was deeply impacted by the Third Great Awakening, and at age 24 he was ordained for ministry. During his lifetime he pastored churches, traveled as an evangelist, served as a Civil War chaplain, edited a Christian periodical and was a devoted husband and father. But E.M. Bounds is best known for prayer. His daily habit was to spend the time between 4 am and 7 am praying. His writings on prayer are widely acclaimed to be among the finest of any author before or since.
2003
1981
1997
2001
Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray
2018
1910
1984
1980
Classic Writings on Prayer
2018
1999
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1978
His Personality, Power and Overthrow
1972
1981
1920
1913
How Christians Ought to Pray
1925
1984
1979
2013
1978
1980
Its Purpose, Its Power, Its Potential
2013