The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-16
THE LORDS PRAYER
PETITIONS USED AS SUBJECTS BY
 REV. BEVERLY WARNER.
"Our Father Whs Art Tn Heaven" Was the Clause Taken Up At the
 Monday Services
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Rev. Beverly Warner. of Trinity church. New Orleans, made stirring address at the monday services in the Majestic Theatre. yesterday before hundred and more business men. He chose for his subject for the four days. during which he is to be the speaker. The Petitions of the Lords Prayer" Yesterday he interpreted the first words, Our Father who art in Heav- en-"
 The disciples asked Christ how to pray, and he answered. When you pray. say H"Our Father who art in Heaven."'
 Prayer is not new with Christ. as some people think. It is not an obli- gation newly arisen, 1t Is instinct as old as man. It is deep-rooted in every heart. Prayer was given to man as a dover of his nature. Whenever mon had to go beyond themselves because of fear or desire of reward, they pray ed.
 There are usually two kinds Of prayers offered. Those by men who ask for something that they want and those by men who desire to avert something that they fear will happen to them.
 "In either case. 1t makes much diff ference to tho man, if he realizes that he is praying to father.
 Many people have tho idea that God Is a distant parsonage, stern and rig orously just. for one. was afraid Of God, when l was a child. It fs a common idea to believe that God is al- ways looking down on us to see whether we have done anything wrong and putting 1t down in @ note book 1T we have.
 There are others who believe that he is 6 whimsical being. They believe that one can never know what he will do. They do not realize that he Is bound up in us, as we are in him.
 There is no chance that God will not heed our prayers. We are just like a child who goes and asks his own earthly father for something. The child knows that he Is going to get an answer and that this answer. no matter whether irNcosts a little sor- row at the time. is the best for. him.
 When we pray. God sifts out all the bias, all the pettiness and other things, that show our purely human oh aracter, and leaves that which Is noble. Then he sends into our life, the answer.
 "The Our in the prayer, makes us part of the whole race. when we pray. The prayer does not teach us to say my father. We are delivered from that little circle where man thinks only of himself. We are led to ser vice to our fellow men, through this common paternity.
 You cannot say Our Father ana not act Our Father towards your fel- lowmen. When we say give us our daily bread we cannot really pray un- less we have done our best to admin ister to the hunger and thirst of others.
 When we say Our Father who art in Heaven.' we raise ourselves from the earth and. register our sonship with God. Whenever we have vision being better than we are, We lift ourselves to a point that we can reach. The Lords prayer lifts us up and shows to us a place that We can reach. And no man can take our heritage from us"
 Rev. MT. Warner will speak this noon on Thy will be done on earth as 1t is in Heaven" The widest interest is being taken in his talks as he is powerful and most sympathetic speaker.