The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 665

PRAYER AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS

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the form of prayer, but without conscious purpose in the soul, are

not the power thereof. the work of the Holy Spirit in According to into this matter. which is partly correct, prayer is im-

And this is not all. To trace prayer we must enter more deeply

the ordinary representation, by which we recall our sins possible without an act of the memory, of the mind, choosing the act an without and the mercies of God; without an our adoration of the divine virtues;

words to express

our needs in prayer; without act of the consciousness, to represent the needs of our country, an act of love, enabling us to enter into our relatives, children, and church, and place of habitation, of meditating upon the fundamentals of friends';

and

lastly,

without

the experiences of the faprayer, recalling the promises of God, Kingdom. thers, and the conditions of the brain, which is the seat of the the of activities All these are by abnormal conditions, thinking mind; as soon as this is disturbed the thinking ceases or becomes the consciousness is obscured and there can be no thinking; confused. Without the brain, therefore, without thoughts thinking there can be no thoughts;

without

thoughts in the memory; and there can be no accumulation of the former two. there can without meditation, which is the result of

the word. From which it is be no prayer in the proper sense of exercise of bodily functions evident that prayer depends upon the much more largely than is generally supposed. far. and And yet. let us be on our guard not to push this too of member i.e.. in a imagine that the root of prayer is in the drain, us, teaches Our own experience in prayer the body for it is not. that it is in the /learf. As from the Scripture, the to agreeably Unless issues of prayer. heart are the issues of life, so are also the with Men vain. us to pray, all our cries are in ;

the heart compels been men of prayer; magnificent brains but cold hearts have never development, mental of poor and. on the contrary, among the men souls mighty of number warm hearts, are found a

but with large,

in prayer.

And even

a bodily organ. this is not all; for the heart itself is

through the heart with strong In proportion as the blood circulates is the soul's vital expression or feeble pulsation, in that proportion and, dependent upon weary overwhelming, or weak and strong and this, prayer

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;

is

warm and

animated, or cold and formal.

When

the

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