Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1915 — True Prayer. [ARTICLE]

True Prayer.

Prayer, to be real, must be sincere. There is a prayer that is sin to a man (Psa. 6:18). Such prayer is prayer that is not honest; that is offered for things we do not truly desire or will not faithfully receive; that is used as a cover of selfishness or indolence; that is of the lips only, and not of the heart. ■ The prayer that God will answer must be prayer from the heart. “In all thy prayers,” says John Bunyan, “let thy heart be without words, ' rather than thy words without heart.” When we have put our hearts into our prayers we shall have no trouble in putting them into our work. As Gut- | nail said, “ ’Tis harder to get the great bell up than to ring it when raised. And so it Is with our hearts—harder work we shall find it to prepare them for duty than to perform it when they are got into some order.”