The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Subject: Prayer.

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in a prayer meeing:* it is not necessary to get down . your knees to
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is 20 repenant as fervorless alteration. For it violates sense of the
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a thorough Transformation Of his life by the impulses nlsa Of 0u divine ne truth, n who
p1syss Is that " are self conscious s; we have 1{ {Ssf ct to 5 pray aeGat; We We ss
e1lsrsins and ennvening prayer Many men seem see t. to Think think . that prayer prayer
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lecture. = It is not, in the limited sense Of the tern, a n address: Prayer :, is
tss sSs f5t nev san npn careful st ne and Si tai shs P sns inS Ssa HssS Of the Re x !:
isnsiSss S iesi is smue He's1 the he'q richer che SI the t eSpef H%S 81 the HSI or oHs f sT It the
prayer. .,
Prayer should be faithful. 1t should believe. Without trust in God
II is a mere mechanical operation. We must believe that it reaches, that
it is heard, that it is something more than a reflex action. And it is. AS
I prd 5p the and s't desni ad c %ss oP5'' te 8 sare ean@3 rhs ssp prayer e Of H a Ag good "H msn
7zsj' st3 Of The The s saistsa P nss 4 ready St + 9 seess: to aa the f Sss5t Of heart ss: If: III ss ts;
keepeth guard overu us neither slumbers or sleeps.
Such prayer should be the practice of the church. For a prayerless
church is a church disabled and discredted. 1t is n o fiction that the
prayer meeting is the spiritual thermometer of the church. When the
s %Pss ,h has has a5s eonn Sss 7 Stn Ssho sS T 5fsst s ss snsssh ana Ris a5 SssfSn sss
has had power with men. The trouble with u is that W e lack the spirit
of prayer. Judging from the average prayer meeting the people have
little for which they ar thankful, little need of the sustaining of God,
little nraise 10 offer small request to make. The art of prayer is t a
conspicuous characteristic of the church of our times. We re weak in
influence.
and obligation to the world for which Jesus lived and died, when she has
a clear conception of her eternal Indebtedness to the gracious God whA
hath called her into being and who hath preserved her till this day, when
n hears the penetrating voice of the Lord who stitch between the
cherubim crying to her soul, who shall l send and who will go for u.s."
then the church will learn to pray. Wherever there is a congregation that
las experienced these things there will you find a praying people, a people
of power with men and with God. For when Christians possess the knowf
edge of these things then they feel the need for divine guidance. Then they
commune with God. Then they pray.
The future of the church rests upon her capacity and power to pray.
We cannot too much emphasize the need of proper mystical and spiritual
union between the Lord and His people. The danger is that in the midst
of and under the ccmGIlsions Of the engrossng cares Of the modern world
that are meat and drink and life eternal to the church Of the living God.
It is necessaryt that We shall have a clear conception of the reality as of the
value of the prayer life. For prayer will panopy the church with power.
II will r"Eoh nor Dorlnr1hlp If VII lnSnn INC CQu nT IL VIII make