Prayer: Sorrow for Sin, Faith, and Humility

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 13, 1876

Prayer: Sorrow for Sin, Faith, and Humility

PRAYER, to make it accepted, requires neither genius, eloquence nor language; but sorrow for sins, faith and humility. It is the cry of distress, the sense of want, the abasement of contrition, the energy of gratitude. It is not an elaborate string of well arranged periods, nor an exercise of ingenuity, nor an effort of the memory, but the devout breathing of a soul struck with the sense of its own misery, and of the holiness of Him to whom it is addressed.