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E.M. Bounds (1835–1913), Methodist pastor and former Civil War chaplain, famed for his early-morning prayer. Power Through Prayer (1907) insists that the power of preaching lies not in method or eloquence but in the praying life of the preacher. Chinese translation by Philip Teng.
Written in 1938 after the Gestapo closed Bonhoeffer's underground seminary at Finkenwalde: Christian community as God's gift rather than our ideal — the day together, the day alone, ministry to one another, confession and communion.
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900), first Bishop of Liverpool, on the duties of Christian parents (1888): from Proverbs 22:6, plain and searching counsel on training children in the way they should go — with patience and love, in Scripture and prayer, by example, and with constant prayer for them.