Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — True Prayer. [ARTICLE]

True Prayer.

General Booth has said: "The great temptation in our prayers is to pray to ourselves, to make it.a son of mental exercise. We find ourselves making a prayer that sounds nice and to the point praying to our own admiration, or praying to those around us. The temptation is very seldom absent when people pray in any large company to make a prayer that will flt in, that will do something to those around about us. And, in one sense I don’t know that that spirit is to be condemned. But if you pray in your very inmost soul, if you fix your eyes on God, and if you talk to Him, you are bound to do good to those round about you, because you lead them also to talk to God. "You can' be quite sure He is there —He is not gone on a Journey, nor asleep and needs to be awakened. He is there right before you; mystery of mysteries. He is listening to your petitions before they are well out of your lips or correctly formed in your mind! Listen! ‘And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear.’ ’’

Parents will not make a mistake if they think over how they act toward their children. Whatever you do beware of so treating them that they will not respect you and will not feel much sorrow if Death should take you to another world.