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USELESS PRAYERS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 20.

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USELESS PRAYERS.

How many useless prayers we say, Because our lives our prayers belie; Because devotion dies away, As on the air the echoes die!
The lips may utter holy words, And tremble with the form of prayer; May charm the ear like singing birds, And seem an angel's praise to share.
And yet, unless a life of love, Which fain would bless the world, be ours, In vain we lift our hearts above, Though worshiping in Eden bowers!
Our life, our love, give soul to prayer, Faith wings it to the mercy seat; Wins it divine acceptance there, And pours heaven's treasures at our feet!