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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 15.

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PRAYER

By J. Clarke

Why was Christ so constant in prayer to his Father? Why did he so often exhort his disciples to watch and pray? He knew the weakness of our nature, and the strength of the enemy. He well knew the strength that might be attained by closely walking with God, and he knew the weakness of such as neglect prayer, and think to overcome without faith and without the Spirit of God.
By having a large measure of the Spirit of God, we soar above the low level of carnal desire. By reading his word with much prayer, we seem to hold intercourse with good angels; and we have a foretaste of the heavenly world; already it seems to open its gates, inviting us to enter.
Prayer, linked with warm desire for the influence of the Holy Spirit, rouses the soul from her deathlike stupor, at the same time reaching the throne of God, and bringing down upon the humble supplicant the sweet and elevating influence from above.
J. CLARKE.