Efficacy of Prayer

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 13, 1909

Efficacy of Prayer.

IN THE first of a series of articles on "The Salvation of Christianity" which appears in the August number of Appleton's Magazine, Rev. Charles F. Aked quotes a distinguished London medical man, Dr. Murray Hyslop, as bearing this testimony to the efficacy of prayer:

"As an alienist and one whose whole life has been concerned with the sufferings of the human mind, I would state that of all the hygienic measures to counteract disturbed sleep, depression of spirits and all the miserable sequels of a distressed mind, I would undoubtedly give the first place to the simple habit of prayer. . . . Let there but be a nightly communion, not as a mendicant nor repeater of words more adapted to the tongue of a sage, but as a humble individual who submerges or asserts his individuality as an integral part of a greater whole. Such a habit does more to clean the spirit and strengthen the soul to overcome more incidental emotionalism than any other therapeutic agent known to us."