PHILIP GIDDINGS by Philip Giddings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

PHILIP GIDDINGS

By Philip Giddings

Morsels

PHILIP GIDDINGS

THEY may seem alike, but 3 is not E. They look in opposite directions, and are reversals: one’s foot is where the other’s head is,—like Judas and Jude.

From the same root whence comes knee (brk) comes blessed. The kneeling man is the blessed man. “Behold, he prayeth” at “the street . . . called Straight.” Acts 9:11. There is where he lives — at Straight Street — whose attitude is prayer. The one at prayer is tapping heaven. In the tactics of the Christian soldier, knee-drill is superlative,—

For Satan flees At once he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

Of the four P’s, prayer comes before praise, practise, and preach. The prayer-seed develops into praise-blossom, then into practise-fruit, whose seed is in itself—the preach-seed—for propagation.