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The Duty of Secret Prayer

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 9.

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The Duty of Secret Prayer

By Edwards

THERE are those who live in the neglect of secret prayer, showing their good will to neglect all the worship of God. He that prays only when he prays with others, would not pray at all, were it not that the eyes of others were upon him. He that will not pray where none but God seeth him, manifestly doth not pray at all out of respect to God, or regard to his all-seeing eyes, and therefore doth in effect cast off all prayer; and he that casts off prayer in effect, casts off all the worship of God, of which prayer is the principal duty. He that casts off the worship of God in effect, casts off God himself; he refuses to own him, or to be conversant with him as his God.—Edwards.