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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 1, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 27.

Prayer

Prayer.—Dr. R. F. Horton in a recent address says that prayer is a lost art. He stated: "Our prayer-meetings are empty, and I am not surprised, for a prayer-meeting is often a dreary infliction. We have lost the art of praying. We want nothing more to-day than men who are good at praying." He went on to say that the "Mauretania," the great Cunard liner, was built by prayer. The architect who constructed it would not put in a single piece of that great ship without definitely asking God to aid him. Nor would he receive any part of the machinery without having the consciousness that it had also received the divine acceptance. If a man would do that in building a ship in which human lives would be risked, how much more ought those who are workmen for God in the building of His spiritual temple want the Master's guidance at every step.