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Useless Prayers

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 24.

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Useless Prayers.

By Theresa A. Herrick

Bro. White: I select the following from a paper. Please print it in the Review.
Theresa A. Herrick.
How many useless prayers we say, Because our lives our prayers belie; Because devotion dies away, As on the air its echoes die!
The lips may utter holy words, And tremble with the form of prayer; May charm the ear like singing birds, And seem an angel's praise to share!
And yet, unless a life of love, Which fain would bless the world, be ours, In vain we lift our hearts above, Though worshipping in Eden howers!
Our life, our love, gives soul to prayer, Faith' wings it to the mercy seat; Wins its divine acceptance there, And pours Heaven's treasures at our feet!