Do not doubt any more that the Lord can hear your prayers, when, with a small instrument, sensitive to the electric spark, you can distinctly hear the human voice in your home received from the ocean thousands of miles away. When you can communicate to some one in the midst of the ocean from your home, far inland from the ocean do not for a moment doubt that the Lord understands all these means of communication and that he has means of hearing and understanding your innermost, exact thoughts.
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed.
It will not do to have doubts in our minds when we call upon the Lord for a blessing. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. It may be that some who are under the sound of my voice today, both of the seen as well as the unseen audience, are earnestly seeking after truth, but have not as yet put themselves in a position to receive a testimony of the divinity of this great latter-day work.