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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 15.

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PRAYER.

PRAYER gives to needy, sinful man, at any and every hour, the great privilege of access to the King of kings and Lord of lords, to the Most High and Most Holy, and this with the utmost freedom and confidence; the access of a child to a parent.
It is a holy intercourse with God—a simple, unfeigned, humble, and ardent offering of the heart before God—the application of want to him who alone can relieve it; the voice of sin to him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of truth. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It is the "Lord, save us, we perish," of drowning Peter; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy.