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Direct and Short: The Secret of Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 11.

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Direct and Short: The Secret of Prayer

When we hear a person in his prayers going round and round the point, instead of going right at it, we feel that he cannot be very much in earnest. Great need is always direct and short. There was no circumlocution in the publican’s prayer; and that little beggar-boy had the secret of prayer who, fearing the door would be shut in his face, contrived to get his whole plea into one sentence: “Please, ma’am,” said he, “can’t you give me some clothes; I am so hungry I have no place to sleep to-night.”