Charles Spurgeon’s church was a praying church.  Spurgeon biographer Lewis Drummond writes,

How the people of New Park Street Baptist Church did pray!  They actually prayed down revival.  But prayer must be personal as well as corporate.  Could Spurgeon himself pray?  He could; he actually seemed to walk in a spirit of continuous prayer.  Though not given to long formal prayers, he prayed “without ceasing.” He stated, “You cannot measure fire by the bushel, nor prayers by their length.”  He believed that and practiced it.  Actually, he spent only one or two whole nights in prayer in his entire life, but he walked with God in such depth that he could move from conversation with a friend and then into prayer in a moment.

(Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, p. 29)

Indeed.  According to Spurgeon, “Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the Church.”