rit works it in us. Let us sometimes in our
prayers, when we are in danger of being so occupied with our
fervent, urgent petitions, as to forget that the Father knows
and hears, let us hold still and just quietly say: My Father
sees, my Father hears, my Father knows; it will help our faith to
take the answer, and to say: We know that we have the petitions
we have asked of Him.

And now, all ye who have anew entered the school of Christ to be
taught to pray, take these lessons, practise them, and trust Him
to perfect you in them. Dwell much in the inner chamber, with the
door shut--shut in from men, shut up with God; it is there the
Father waits you, it is there Jesus will teach you to pray. To be
alone in secret with THE FATHER: this be your highest joy. To be
assured that THE FATHER will openly reward the secret prayer, so
that it cannot remain unblessed: this be your strength day by
day. And to know that THE FATHER knows that you need what you
ask, this be your liberty to bring every need, in the assurance
that your God will supply it according to His riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.

'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'

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Blessed Saviour! with my whole heart I do bless Thee for the
appointment of the inner chamber, as the school where Thou
meetest each of Thy pupils alone, and revealest to him the
Father. O my Lord! strengthen my faith so in the Father's tender
love and kindness, that as often as I feel sinful or troubled,
the first instinctive thought may be to go where I know the
Father waits me, and where prayer never can go unblessed. Let the
thought that He knows my need before I ask, bring me, in great
restfulness of faith, to trust that He will give what His child
requires. O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most
beloved spot on earth.

And, Lord! hear me as I pray that Thou wouldest everywhere bless
the closets of Thy believing people. Let Thy wonderful revelation
of a Father's tenderness free all young Christians from every
thought of secret prayer as a duty or a burden, and lead them to
regard it as the highest privilege of their life, a joy and a
blessing. Bring back all who are discouraged, because they cannot
find aught to bring Thee in prayer. O give them to understand
that they have only to come with their emptiness to Him who has
all to give, and delights to do it. Not, what they have to bring
the Father, but what the Father waits to give them, be