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Two Kinds of Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 36.

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THE Pharisee informed the Lord How good a life he led; The publican shrank back in shame, And smote his breast instead: But when the Lord, in tender love, The penitent commended, The hypocrite, with heart unchanged, Straightway his prayer amended.
Said he, “The man who says he’s worst, Is by the Lord thought best;” So next when he to worship went, As publican he dressed, And smote upon his hollow heart, And bowed him down and groaned, And, proud of his humility, His unfelt sins he owned.
The publican — an altered man — Came too, with lifted head, And joyfully gave thanks to God For the new life he led: The Lord again his offering took, Still spurned the Pharisee’s; For sometimes tears and sometimes thanks, But only truth, can please.
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