The fountain : with jets of new meanings . PRAYER OP THE BEGGAR-GIRL. 184 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. The universal practice is to pray upon the theorythat the Infinite expects and requires of finite creaturesvocal recognition, glorification, and entreaty. Thisfallacious theory has resulted in universal routinepraying—a sort of Sabbath-drill and periodical driveat the original source of every blessing—so that thephraseology of prayer, as well as the peculiar emotionsvolitionally summoned to stimulate vocal utterance,have become wearily monotonous and blasphemously V jfea. PRAYER BY MAN TO MAN IN POW
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . PRAYER OP THE BEGGAR-GIRL. 184 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. The universal practice is to pray upon the theorythat the Infinite expects and requires of finite creaturesvocal recognition, glorification, and entreaty. Thisfallacious theory has resulted in universal routinepraying—a sort of Sabbath-drill and periodical driveat the original source of every blessing—so that thephraseology of prayer, as well as the peculiar emotionsvolitionally summoned to stimulate vocal utterance,have become wearily monotonous and blasphemously V jfea. PRAYER BY MAN TO MAN IN POWBR. mechanical. As a labor-saving expedient, the morelogical, yet not less sincere, heathen have instituteddivers praying-machines; which, it is affirmed, uni-formly maintain an untarnished reputation for goodmorals, and demand nothing by way of salary forreligious services rendered. Enthroned human power, which means influence INFLUENCE OF PRAYER. 185 embodied in place or genius, commands respect andcompels worship. Hero-worship, is the homage paidby awe-struck and submissive idolators to the personi-fication of power. The prone spirit of prayer is pre-sent in all such adoration. It is this spirit of syco-phantic subserviency which urges men to surrendertheir natural rights, and to sign : We are your Lord-ships humble and obedient servants. Obedience toconstituted authority is necessary to private and publicorder. With such obedience is mingled the elementof conscience or duty. But it is manifestly everymans higher duty, all his life long, to search out and
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