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The Spirit of Prayer

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 44.

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The Spirit of Prayer

REMEMBER that God is no curious or critical observer of the plain expressions that fall from his poor children when they are in their closet duties; 'tis not a flow of words, studied notions, seraphic expressions, or elegant phrases in prayer, which take the ear, or delight the heart, of God, or open the gate of glory, or bring down the best of blessings upon the soul; but uprightness, holiness, heavenliness, spirituality, and brokenness of heart—these are the things that make a conquest upon God, and turn most to the soul's account.