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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 11.

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Meditation and Prayer

MEDITATION and Prayer are like the spies that went to search the land of Canaan, the one views, and the other cuts down; and both bring home a taste of the fairest and sweetest fruits of heaven. Meditation, like the eye, views our mercies; and prayer, like the hand, reacheth them in; or, meditation is like one who goeth abroad to gather in what we want; and prayer, like a ship, brings in what we desire. It is my misery, that I cannot be so perfect as not to want; but it is thy mercy, that I cannot be so miserable, as not to be supplied. Meditation cannot find out a real want, but prayer will bring it an answer of comfort. Lord! if mercy be so free, I will never be poor, but I will meditate to know it; never know it, but I will pray to supply it; and yet not rest, until thou shalt do more for me than I am able to ask or think.