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 vii
... clear recognition of the simple and central fact — a fact apparently unrecognized by so many - that prayer is something the reality and power of which can be verified only by pray- ing . An alarming weakness among Christians is that we ...
... clear recognition of the simple and central fact — a fact apparently unrecognized by so many - that prayer is something the reality and power of which can be verified only by pray- ing . An alarming weakness among Christians is that we ...
Page xi
... clear away the difficulties that hamper fellowship with this living God , the book has used the Scrip- ture as the basis of its thought . But the passages of Scrip- ture quoted are not employed as proof texts to establish an opinion ...
... clear away the difficulties that hamper fellowship with this living God , the book has used the Scrip- ture as the basis of its thought . But the passages of Scrip- ture quoted are not employed as proof texts to establish an opinion ...
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... clear , thy tongues of fire On dusky tribes and centuries sit . " O Lord , in whose hands are life and death , by whose power I am sustained , and by whose mercy I am spared , look down upon me with pity . Forgive me that I have until ...
... clear , thy tongues of fire On dusky tribes and centuries sit . " O Lord , in whose hands are life and death , by whose power I am sustained , and by whose mercy I am spared , look down upon me with pity . Forgive me that I have until ...
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... 35 . Which of these two emphases in the Christian life do we appreciate the better ? Is it not clear that all the charac- teristic enthusiasms of our day cluster around work ? In 21 PRAYER AS COMMUNION WITH GOD [ II - 2 ]
... 35 . Which of these two emphases in the Christian life do we appreciate the better ? Is it not clear that all the charac- teristic enthusiasms of our day cluster around work ? In 21 PRAYER AS COMMUNION WITH GOD [ II - 2 ]
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... clear ; From all illusive shows of sense I flee To find my center and my rest in Thee . " Heavenly Father , the Author and Fountain of all truth , the bottomless Sea of all understanding , send , we beseech Thee , Thy Holy Spirit into ...
... clear ; From all illusive shows of sense I flee To find my center and my rest in Thee . " Heavenly Father , the Author and Fountain of all truth , the bottomless Sea of all understanding , send , we beseech Thee , Thy Holy Spirit into ...
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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