Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — The Christian Poster in Prayer. [ARTICLE]

The Christian Poster in Prayer.

New York Sun. As regards the antiquity of the custom of kneeling in prayer, permit me to calL your attention to various texts of Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments, bearing upon the subject. First, in I. Kings, viii., 22 we read: And Solomon stood before the attar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands to heaven, '-rr~rThis means that he stationed himself there, but not in a standing position, because the fifty-fourth verse of the same chapter says. And it was so that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and suplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 11. Chronicles, vi., 13 reads: And upon it he (Solomon) stood and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands toward heaver^ Psalms, ixiv.. 7, reads: O come let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Likewise Daniel, vi., 10: He (Daniel) kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed. Luke, xxii.. 41: And he was withdrawn from thein about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down and prayed. Likewise the 45th verse of the same chapter: And when he rose up from prayer. Acts. vii.. 60, reads: And he (Stephen) kneeled down and cried with a loud voice. Lord lay not this sin to their charge. Acts, ix., 40. reads: But Peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed. —Acts, xx., 36: And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and praved with them ail. Acts, xxi., 5; And we kneeled down on the shore

and prayed.

J. H. R.