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SIMPLICITY IN PRAYER

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 7.

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SIMPLICITY IN PRAYER.

By Cummings

Whenever a person prays earnestly, and truly, his prayer will be simple, it will be short, it will be to the purpose. Almost every prayer in the Bible is a short prayer. Long prayers and repetitions do not indicate earnestness; it is the deep, simple cry of an humble, needy, destitute heart, that God hears, when offered through the name and merits of Jesus Christ. Let us pray in spirit, and pray in truth, and we shall pray simple, and to the purpose; simple words; sublime petitions—so our Lord taught his disciples, and so he will teach us to pray.—Cummings.