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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

Private Prayer.

THERE is need of public prayer. We should meet with the congregation and offer our united requests to God.

There is need of social prayer. It is difficult to see how one who neglects the prayer-meeting can make progress in religion. The prayer-meeting enables one to carry the spirit of the Sabbath through the week.

Besides these, there is need of private prayer. There are confessions that must be whispered in the ear of God. The man who can stand up before his fellow-man and say, in regard to the requisitions of the law of justice and honor, “All these have I kept,” has confessions which can be made only when he has entered into his closet and shut the door. There are requests that can be made only at a private interview. Hence the necessity for private prayer.

Every Christian knows that he has avoided sin in proportion as he has practiced secret prayer. Every one knows that when he has neglected private prayer, his life has been a form. There is no such thing as leading a Christian life, as walking with God, without regular habits of private prayer.—S. S. Times.