EPIGRAM ON PRAYER

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1856

EPIGRAM ON PRAYER.

PRAYER highest soars when she most prostrate lies, And when she supplicates, she storms the skies, Thus to gain heaven may seem an easy task, For what can be more easy than to ask? Yet oft we do by sad experience find, That clogged with earth, some prayers are left behind. And some like chaff blown off at every wind, To kneel is easy, to pronounce not hard, Then why are some petitioners debarred? Hear what an ancient oracle declared: Some sing their prayers, and some their prayers say, He's an Elias, who his prayers can pray. Reader, remember, when you next repair To church or closet, this memoir of prayer.

The Monitor.