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Loudness in Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 2, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 41.

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Loudness in Prayer

"One would think, from hearing the loud tones used by some in prayer, that the Lord was deaf. Their voices are pitched in the highest key, as if that denoted intense earnestness. The Lord hears the feeblest cry of his children, and it is unnecessary to speak in stentorian tones to have our requests heard. We are aware that it is quite apt to draw responses and amens from the listening worshipers, and that very few are heard when a brother or sister uses a natural tone of voice, but God hears, and the feelings of the heart, much more than loudness of utterance, determines the answer."