INSTANT IN PRAYER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1893

INSTANT IN PRAYER.

Stonewall Jackson, when once using the phrase "instant in prayer," was asked what he meant by it. "I have so fixed the habit in my own mind," he replied, "that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment asking God's blessing; I never seal a letter without putting a prayer under the seal; I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thought heavenward; I never change my classes in the lecture room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in." "And don't you sometimes forget to do this?" "I can scarcely say that I do," was the answer; "the habit has become as fixed almost as breathing."—Selected.