The Dawson journal., 1883-09-27
Payer

most interior sense is the open
ing of the doors of the soul to let the
King Of Glory come in.
Prayer is key the to the everlasting
doors of heaven, that opens them
that the Divine Love and Truth
may pour into our souls.
The prayer that does this, is un-
selfish, asks nothing for ones self,
that IS not willing to accord to all.
The prayer that does this is hum
bic and contrite, and does not die
tate to God, but always "adds,
nevertheless not my will but thine
be done"
Voluble words that go forth for
admiration of the world are not pray.
ers; there are mere declamations or
recitations.
Long harangues to God are vain
babblings, that close the Gates Of
Heaven They dishonor God, and
give the honor to the babler.
Formal prayers are toying with
holy things. They take the rame Of
God in vain.
We do not condemn public prayer
when it is the true utterance of a
soul devotedly in love with the Lord
to WHOM it is offered.
The prayer of such a man as J..
w. Fletcher, opens the doors of
Heaven until a food Of glory pours
in upon his hearers. Not that one
mans prayer Of itself opens the doors
of other mems souls, but it is infec-
tlous and causes the hearers to Join
him in the prayer and thus open
their souls, to the King OF Glory.
A true prayer does not dictate; a
true prayer does not demand, but
carries up its complaint to the Lord
as the great physician and leaves
him to prescribe the remedy. Who
is he that sends for physician and
tells him what remedy to use? The
physician is presumed to know best.
How much more so is it with the
Great Physician who probes the
very sources Of all diseases of the
soul and body.
The lnfdel says, if God knows all
things and is constantly laboring to
restore all things why pray at all?
Ii man was mere piece of ma
chinery like clock that only has to
be kept running, this would be ra-
tional question.
Man is designed to be of a rational
mind and Of free volition. Every
providence of God is to keep him in
freedom and nationality. It is there
fore necessary that there should be
free conspiration of the soul OF
man with the Spirit of God.
The aspirations of men are the
continued prayers of men. Some
open the doors of Heaven and some
the doors of he'll.
The aspirations men that look tc
the good of mankind open the
doors of Heaven. The aspirations
of men that look only to the good Of
self open the doors of hell.
The one stores up treasures il
Heaven the other stores up treas
ures on earth.
The treasures Of the first endure
to all eternity; the treasures of the
other endure through short life Oh
earth.
Are prayers. answered? Always
but seldom in the exact manner ex.
pected. This we know from much
experience. The request made may
not be granted, but that which is
better for us is granted instead.
This IS clearly true of all prayer
from believing soul. by believing
soul, we mean one who believes in a
Devine ruler of the Universe, an
ailwlse creator. He that calls ma
ture God must trust to chance
and his own cunning and
sagasity. Verify such a one has the
cohorts of hell to help him to attain
his ends. But, oh what harvest
OF death ana destruction is reaped in
the end. They that SOW to the wind
reap the whirlwind. He that loves
God and desires the salvation Of all
men goes up to God in the attitude
OF prayer, and receives an inspira-
ration OF prayer that will be answered
to the fullest extent, perhaps not to
the letter but to the spirit. If the
devout prayer ofinspiration goes out
for the salvation Of all men, it will
not alone save them but it sends out
a ray of love and light that beseiges