The fountain : with jets of new meanings . est petitions toGod—asking that infidelity (by which they meanChristianity) be destroyed, that Mahomet be univers- 182 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. ally accepted as prophet, and the Koran received bymankind as the only infallible rule of faith and prac-tice. With no more sincerity the faithful in the dif-ferent Christianchurches, beginningwith the head ofthe papal systemand ending with theyoungest exhorter ina camp-meeting, arepraying for favorsand results entirelyantagonistic. War-riors pray to theGod of Battle;p eace-makers peti-tion a God of
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . est petitions toGod—asking that infidelity (by which they meanChristianity) be destroyed, that Mahomet be univers- 182 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. ally accepted as prophet, and the Koran received bymankind as the only infallible rule of faith and prac-tice. With no more sincerity the faithful in the dif-ferent Christianchurches, beginningwith the head ofthe papal systemand ending with theyoungest exhorter ina camp-meeting, arepraying for favorsand results entirelyantagonistic. War-riors pray to theGod of Battle;p eace-makers peti-tion a God of with Chris-tian eyes, and pray-ing with the emotions familiar to the catechismally-educated Christian heart, pass for nothing in thoSeimmense regions where, for twelve hundred years, theMohammedans have sincerely prayed to Allah, whichIs only another name for God. On the other hand,in countries over which the religion of the Jews andconverted Gentiles prevails, under the general term ofChristianity, the reading and devout praying of the. READING WITH CHRISTIAN EYES. INFLUENCE OF PRAYER. 183 followers of Buddha, Brahma, or Mahomet, pass fornothing. And yet all praying is essentially the same,differing in expression only as there is difference in thebirth, temperament, and education of the child-state of mind is essential to fervent andrapturous prayer. Every thing wonderful is possiblein the ignorant mind. The absolute impartiality ofGod, and the irreversible and eternal unchangeablenessof Natures laws, are ideas impossible to be understoodby partial and fickle persons. In the beginning manmade God in his own image and likeness; and untothis primal masterpiece man has ever since addressedhis childlike prayers. It is related that a little boy ofProvincetown, fouryears old, very anxiousfor a drum, the eve-ning preceding Christmas Eve, on going tobed, uttered the fol-lowing earnest prayer: Now I lay me downto sleep, / want adrum, I pray theLord/ / want a drum, my sou
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