Prayer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 48.

PRAYER.—Prayer must be not only with submission, but with discretion. It may be said with some degree of confidence that the most believing petitioners are at the same time the most discreet regarding the things for which they ask. Said Miss Adele M. Fielde, at a woman's meeting in Chicago, concerning a wonderfully blessed prayer-circle in China: "We got so that we considered a long while and very carefully before we decided to permit certain things to be prayed for." As Christians grow more devout and trustful, they doubtless begin to show more and more judgment in the objects of their prayers. They ask less for those things which they ought not to have.—Standard.