Morning Prayer by Rev. S. A. Brooke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1875

Morning Prayer.

By Rev. S. A. Brooke

Such a prayer is the guard of life. It prepares us beforehand for temptation; neglect it and we fall. It makes us conscious of our Father's presence, so that we hear his voice in the hour of our folly or our sin, saying: “My child, this morning you called me to your side; do not drive me far away. Bridle that passionate temper; keep back that foolish word which will sting your neighbor's heart; do not do that dishonest act; be not guilty of that cowardice. I am by your side.” This is the thing which prayer makes real—prayer, not only in the morning watch, but prayer sent voicelessly from the heart from hour to hour.

And day being hallowed thus, do not omit to make holy the night. Take, by the power of prayer, through the wild land of dreams, the sanctifying presence of One who loves us. Claim it every night, and it will attend, to hallow the fancies of sleep, to save us from the baseness of dream-fear, to call back the wandering fancy from impurity. For prayer, continually lived in, makes the presence of a holy and loving God the air which life breathes and by which it lives, so that, as it mingles consciously with the work of the day, it becomes also a part of every dream.—Rev. S. A. Brooke.