SIMPLE FAMILY PRAYERS INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THOSE CLASSES WHOM IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO PLACE IN A HUMBLER POSITION THAN THEIR MORE Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks; for this is the w Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you.-JAMES iv. 8. LONDON : JAMES NISBET AND CO. 21, BERNERS STREET. MDCCCXLVII. TO THE PRAYERFUL AND PRAYERLESS This Little Book IS DEDICATED, WITH THE SINCERE HOPE THAT THE FORMER MAY FIND IT A COMFORT, AND THAT BY IT THE LATTER MAY BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH JOYS WHICH ΤΟ THEM HAVE HITHERTO BEEN UNKNOWN. The salt preserveth the sea, and the saints uphold the earth; Their prayers are the thousand pillars that prop the canopy of nature. Prayer is a creature's strength, his very breath and being; Prayer is the golden key that can open the wicket of mercy; Prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of Omnipotence. Wherefore, pray, O creature, for many and great are thy wants; Thy minds, thy conscience, and thy being, thy rights commend thee unto prayer; The cure for all cares, the grand panacea for all pains. So then, God is true, and yet He hath not changed: It is HE that sendeth the petition, to answer it according to His will. M. F. TUPPER. |