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Flippant Abuse of Prayer

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 22, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 37.

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Flippant Abuse of Prayer

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THE Lord said to Israel, "When ye make many prayers, I will not hear," and the same may be said of the present day. Max O'Rell, the French humorist, says: "The other day I was introduced to an audience with prayer, and in that prayer the Lord was asked to allow my audience to see through my jokes." Such is not prayer; it is flat blasphemy. Well does the Lutheran Witness say: "Such flippant abuse of prayer—so many sectarian reverends being ready to open any sort of meeting with prayer, and another 'brother' closing it with the benediction—and oh, what flippant praying!—is only too common."