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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Page 43
... body of some victim of drink or lust , some member of the gutter popula- tion of a great city who has descended to his doom by means of the multiplied temptations with which our so - called society environs him . It is a romantic creed ...
... body of some victim of drink or lust , some member of the gutter popula- tion of a great city who has descended to his doom by means of the multiplied temptations with which our so - called society environs him . It is a romantic creed ...
Page 73
... body and inwardly in his soul , and con- strain him to reverential obedience to the laws Thou hast ordained for both . Sustain him in health of body that he may the better control the motions of thought , and repel the assaults of ...
... body and inwardly in his soul , and con- strain him to reverential obedience to the laws Thou hast ordained for both . Sustain him in health of body that he may the better control the motions of thought , and repel the assaults of ...
Page 94
... body at this time . We know that in Thee we live and move and have our being , but we are cast down and easily disquieted , and we wander in many a sad wilderness where we lose the conscious experience of Thy presence . Yet the deepest ...
... body at this time . We know that in Thee we live and move and have our being , but we are cast down and easily disquieted , and we wander in many a sad wilderness where we lose the conscious experience of Thy presence . Yet the deepest ...
Page 96
... body and soul and spirit may be all Thine , and Thou be our Father and our Eternal Friend . Amen . - George Dawson ( 1821-1876 ) . Fourth Day , Sixth Week Bless Jehovah , O my soul . O Jehovah , my God , thou art very great ; Thou art ...
... body and soul and spirit may be all Thine , and Thou be our Father and our Eternal Friend . Amen . - George Dawson ( 1821-1876 ) . Fourth Day , Sixth Week Bless Jehovah , O my soul . O Jehovah , my God , thou art very great ; Thou art ...
Page 102
... bodies scores of hundreds of miles beyond that , and throughout the whole expanse law is absolute . Or if one looks at near - by things to rest his thought from such iron regularity , he finds no comfort there . Of all snow - crystals ...
... bodies scores of hundreds of miles beyond that , and throughout the whole expanse law is absolute . Or if one looks at near - by things to rest his thought from such iron regularity , he finds no comfort there . Of all snow - crystals ...
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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