Word: pray
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objected to that this prayer is merely a means of strengthening one's spiritual muscle and that it makes no difference whether there is any answer or not; but if a man once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally...
...ordinary education and learned the trade of an iron moulder. His fondness for drink proved his ruin, and seven years ago he was a wretched outcast of the worst type. He struggled in vain against his terrible failing, till through the efforts of Mr. Hadley he was brought to pray to Jesus Christ. That alone saved him and Mr. Griffin says that is the only thing can save others...
During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: "Bring Unto the Lord." - Gladstone; "Thy Sun Shall no More go Down." - Brown; "Lord We Pray Thee." - Roberts...
...conception that many men have of Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic...
...Pray then as they have prayed who must have felt the power of prayer. Pray "Thy will be done...