The Meaning of PrayerAssociation Press, 1915 - 196 pages When anyone undertakes to study the meaning and to cultivate the habit of prayer, it is well for the person to understand, from the beginning, that he is dealing with a natural function of his life and not with an artificial addition. For instance, raising palm trees in Greenland would be an unnatural proceeding. They never were intended to grow there and never can grow there save under stress of artificial forcing. The culture of prayer would be just as strained a procedure, were it not true that the tendency to pray is native to us, that prayer is indigenous in us, that we do pray, one way or another, even though fitfully and without effect, and that we humans always have prayed and always will pray. |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK AUTHOR OF " The Manhood of the MASTER , " " THE Assurance OF IMMORTALITY , " " THE SECOND MILE " With Introduction by JOHN R. MOTT Association Press NEW YORK : 124 EAST 28TH STREET LONDON : 47 ...
Harry Emerson Fosdick. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK AUTHOR OF " The Manhood of the MASTER , " " THE Assurance OF IMMORTALITY , " " THE SECOND MILE " With Introduction by JOHN R. MOTT Association Press NEW YORK : 124 EAST 28TH STREET LONDON : 47 ...
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... masters in prayer concerning its possibili- ties . What the power of thought can mean must be seen in the thinkers ; what prayer can do must be seen in the pray - ers . Whenever they speak , language seems to them inadequate to describe ...
... masters in prayer concerning its possibili- ties . What the power of thought can mean must be seen in the thinkers ; what prayer can do must be seen in the pray - ers . Whenever they speak , language seems to them inadequate to describe ...
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... Master's life : We must work the works of him that sent me , while it is day : the night cometh , when no man can work . -John 9 : 4 . In the morning , a great while before day , he rose up and went out , and departed into a desert ...
... Master's life : We must work the works of him that sent me , while it is day : the night cometh , when no man can work . -John 9 : 4 . In the morning , a great while before day , he rose up and went out , and departed into a desert ...
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... master , previously to flogging all the others , said to me , to the great bewilderment of the whole school : ' Little boy , I excuse you : I have particular reasons for it , ' and in fact , I was never flogged during the three years I ...
... master , previously to flogging all the others , said to me , to the great bewilderment of the whole school : ' Little boy , I excuse you : I have particular reasons for it , ' and in fact , I was never flogged during the three years I ...
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... Master thrice returned with blood - stained face , to cry , " Let this cup pass " ( Matt . 26:39 ) , had " No " for an aswer . Neither did prayer mean to Jesus merely the reflex action of his own mind . Jesus prayed with such power that ...
... Master thrice returned with blood - stained face , to cry , " Let this cup pass " ( Matt . 26:39 ) , had " No " for an aswer . Neither did prayer mean to Jesus merely the reflex action of his own mind . Jesus prayed with such power that ...
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Ahab answer believe Bible blessing called cause Christian communion Consider DAILY READINGS dominant desire earnest earth Eternal evil experience face faith Father feel fellowship friendship gifts give glory God's grace grant Habakkuk habitual hand hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher Holy Holy Spirit Horace Bushnell human individual intercession Jehovah Jeremy Taylor Kingdom knowledge lives Lord man's Master Matt means mercy mind moods natural natural law never ourselves peace petition practice prayer wheel presence Psalm Psalmist READINGS First Day realm reign of law rejoice religion righteous sake Scripture secret seek servant soul speak spirit SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT supplication Thine things Thomas à Kempis Thou art Thou hast thou wilt thy name Thyself tion trouble true truth unanswered unanswered prayer unselfish unto thee Walter Rauschenbusch wants Week wisdom wish words