We are taught to believe that if we pray, we shall receive an answer to our prayer. A superstitious person believing this is ready to believe that he may be punished, for some one may pray that God may remove him. The priests would offer up prayers to their God for the salvation of souls, and the doctors would offer up prayers for their business. Each army prays that God will direct the weapons that will slay their enemies. A prayer made up of words is lost unless accompanied by good to some one, and if we do good to one another our prayer is in the act.
True prayer is in our acts.
False prayer is in our words, and by their fruits you shall know them. The Search Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his work good. . . . Prayer that craves a particular commodity, any- thing less than all good, is vicious. . . .