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Whining in Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 5, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 14.

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Whining in Prayer

A curate who adopted a monotonous whine in his prayers, on being remonstrated with by his diocesan, pleaded that such a tone was proper to acts of supplication, because beggars always assumed a whine when they asked for alms. The bishop replied:— “Yes; but when they do, I always know that they are impostors, and give nothing.”