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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... tion's thought ; but it has flowed on , fed from fountains that changing banks do not affect . Nowhere is this more plain than in the Bible . Compare the dying prayer of Samson , as he wound his arms around the sustaining pillars of the ...
... tion's thought ; but it has flowed on , fed from fountains that changing banks do not affect . Nowhere is this more plain than in the Bible . Compare the dying prayer of Samson , as he wound his arms around the sustaining pillars of the ...
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... tion is marked by practical efficiency and spiritual shallow- ness ? May we not hope to keep in ourselves the best gains of this efficient age and at the same time recover the " practice of the presence of God " ? Almighty Father ...
... tion is marked by practical efficiency and spiritual shallow- ness ? May we not hope to keep in ourselves the best gains of this efficient age and at the same time recover the " practice of the presence of God " ? Almighty Father ...
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... tion , the truth that in a love - system of persons , the Eternal God responds to each child's approach . As Kipling sings : " Who clears the grounding berg , And guides the grinding floe , He hears the cry of the little kit fox , And ...
... tion , the truth that in a love - system of persons , the Eternal God responds to each child's approach . As Kipling sings : " Who clears the grounding berg , And guides the grinding floe , He hears the cry of the little kit fox , And ...
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... 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 . But if it is not true Christianity itself is false . " Has your failure ...
... 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 . But if it is not true Christianity itself is false . " Has your failure ...
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... tion ? What gave vitality to the Psalmist's prayer ? What is the difference between a Buddhist turning a prayer wheel and a Christian praying ? What merit is there in praying ? What is the estimate of the value of the individual in the ...
... tion ? What gave vitality to the Psalmist's prayer ? What is the difference between a Buddhist turning a prayer wheel and a Christian praying ? What merit is there in praying ? What is the estimate of the value of the individual in the ...
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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