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PRAYING TO THE POINT

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 10, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 38.

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PRAYING TO THE POINT.

President Finney was well-known for clearness of ideas as well as plainness of speech; and his prayers were not altogether destitute of point and directness. On Sunday, after the choir at Oberlin had sung without distinctly pronouncing the words, he in his prayer alluded to the matter as follows: "O Lord, we have sung an anthem to thy praise. Thou knowest the words, but we do not. We do pray thee that those who thus led us may open their mouths that we may know what they say, that we may join in thy praise. May they not sing to be heard of men. May they not mock thee and offend thy people, or the house of God, by making a display of themselves."