In Lectures to My Students, Charles Spurgeon urges his students to not go long in public prayers, he suggests public prayers be confined to approximately ten minutes, but he then goes on to note, "Our Puritanic forefathers used to pray for three-quarters of an hour, or more, but then you must recollect that they did not know that they would ever have the opportunity of praying again before an assembly [emphasis added, CCS], and therefore, took their fill of it; and besides, people were not inclined in those days to quarrel with the length of prayers or of sermons so much as they do nowadays" (62). After noting this Spurgeon provides the caveat, "You cannot pray too long in private."
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