PRAY ON by Dr. Guthrie

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1877

PRAY ON.

By Dr. Guthrie

It is easy to know the knock of a beggar at one's door. Low, timid, hesitating, it seems to say, “I have no claim on the kindness of this house; I may be told I come too often; I may be treated as a troublesome and unworthy mendicant; the door may be flung in my face by some surly servant.” How different, on his return from school, the loud knocking, the bounding step, the joyous rush of the child to his father's presence, and as he climbs on his knee, and flings his arms around his neck, the bold face and ready tongue with which he reminds his father of some promised favor! Now, why are God's people bold? To a father in God, to an elder brother in Christ, faith conducts our steps in prayer; therefore, in an hour of need, faith, bold of spirit, raises her suppliant hands and cries to God, “Oh, that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down!”—Dr. Guthrie.