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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 4, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 31.

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Take Time to Pray

PRAYERS are hindered by undue haste in our devotions. We must take time to pray. Public prayers and prayers offered in social meetings may well be brief, but nothing should be permitted to hurry our private communion with God. If we should note the time we spend each day in prayer, and compare it with the time we give to trifles, we might have occasion to be ashamed. The little time we give to prayer shows how little interest we have in it, how little faith we have in God, and how faint and cold is our love to him. We do not give time grudgingly to anything in which our hearts are enlisted. We do not hurry through the task we enjoy. Does any one give time sparingly to a friend whom he highly esteems? And shall we who have so much time to give to business, to pleasure, to friendship, to science, to art, and wish for more time to bestow, allow our seasons of fellowship with our Heavenly Father to be cut short by the demands of business and the calls of the world? “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.”—Selected.