Meditation Is Prayer’s Handmaid

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 4.

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Meditation Is Prayer’s Handmaid

MEDITATION is prayer's handmaid, to wait on it, both before and after the performance. It is as the plow before the sower, to prepare the heart for the duty of prayer, and the harrow to cover the seed when 'tis sown. As the hopper feeds the mill with grist, so does meditation supply the heart with matter for prayer:—Gurnall.