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WHAT IS PRAYER

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 5.

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WHAT IS PRAYER.

By James Montgomery

PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire Unuttered or expressed; The motion of the hidden fire That trembles in the breast.
Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward gleaming of an eye, When none but God is near.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high.
Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways, While angels in their songs rejoice, And say, Behold he prays!
The saints in prayer appear as one, In word, in deed, in mind, When with the Father and the Son Their fellowship they find.
Nor prayer is made on earth alone: The Holy Spirit pleads; And Jesus, on th'eternal throne, For sinners intercedes.
"O Thou, by whom we come to God! The Life, the Truth, the Way, The path of prayer thyself hast trod, Lord, teach us how to pray!"
[Montgomery.