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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 22.

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Answers Expected

ANSWERS EXPECTED.—When we write a letter to a friend, we expect an answer. We wait for it. We are disappointed if it does not come.
When we ask a favor from an intimate friend, we expect to receive it. If we are hungry, and go to the house of a friend and ask for food, we wait with the expectation of seeing it set before us. We do not ask for it, and then leave the house with the air of one who expected no favorable reply to his request.
How is it with respect to our prayers? Do we expect answers to them? Do we wait for them? Are we disappointed when they do not come? Or do we go to the throne of grace and make our request, and then go away with the air of one who has no expectation of receiving that which he asked for?