And yet even if it be discovered that desire is honestly absent, we should pray, anyway. We ought to pray.

The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved. God has committed himself, hispurpose, and his promise to prayer.

It is depth and intensity of spiritual desire which give intensity and depth to prayer.

Thanksgiving includes gratitude. In fact thanksgiving is but the expression of an inward conscious gratitude to God for mercies received. Gratitude is an inward emotion of the soul, involuntarily arising therein, while thanksgiving is the voluntary expression of gratitude.

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This is no easy condition. It is reached only after many a failure, after much praying, after many waitings, after much trial of faith.

in general effect, the giving up of one's own way, and following that of another; the surrendering of the will to the will of another; the submission of oneself to the authority and requirements of a parent.

The body, first of all, engages in prayer, since it assumes the praying attitude in prayer. Prostration of the body becomes us in praying as well as prostration of the soul. The attitude of the body counts much in prayer, although it is true that the heart may be haughty and lifted up, and the mind listless and wandering, and the praying a mere for

Obedience, moreover, is faith in action, and is the outflow as it is the very test of love. "He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me."