The soul with a broken heart, on bended knees, with head bowed reverently, cannot long remain in the shadows of the night of spiritual blindness. To pray in secret to our divine Father in heaven brings solace to the aching heart, companionship to the lonely, assurance to the oppressed, light to the wayward, power to the weak, strength to the strong, and the calm conviction that God, our eternal Father, lives and that Jesus is the Christ. – Thorpe B. Isaacson, “Conference Report,” April 1954, Afternoon Meeting, p. 127