he inner man." Phil. i. 3, 4, 8, 9: "I thank my
God _upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine_
making request for you all with joy. For God is my record, how greatly I
long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this _I
pray_"--Col. i. 3, 9: "We give thanks to God, _praying always for you_.
For this cause also, since the day we heard it, we _do not cease to pray
for you_, and to desire"--Col. ii. 1: "I would that ye knew what _great
conflict_ I have for you, and for as many as have not seen my face in
the flesh." 1 Thess. i. 2: "We give thanks to God _always_ for you all,
making mention of you _in our prayers_." iii. 9: "We joy for your sakes
before God; _night and day praying exceedingly_ that we might perfect
that which is lacking in your faith." 2 Thess. i. 3: "We are bound to
thank God _always_ for you. Wherefore also _we always pray_ for you." 2
Tim. i. 3: "I thank God, that _without ceasing_ I have remembrance of
thee night and day." Philem. 4: "I thank my God, making mention of thee
_always in my prayers_."

These passages taken together give us the picture of a man whose words,
"Pray without ceasing," were simply the expression of his daily life. He
had such a sense of the insufficiency of simple conversion; of the need
of the grace and the power of heaven being brought down for the young
converts in prayer; of the need of much and unceasing prayer, day and
night, to bring it down; of the certainty that prayer would bring it
down--that his life was continual and most definite prayer. He had such
a sense that everything must come from above, and such a faith that it
would come in answer to prayer, that prayer was neither a duty nor a
burden, but the natural turning of the heart to the only place whence it
could possibly obtain what it sought for others.

THE CONTENTS OF PAUL'S PRAYERS.

It is of as much importance to know _what_ Paul prayed, as how
frequently and earnestly he did so. Intercession is a spiritual work.
Our confidence in it will depend much on our knowing that we ask
according to the will of God. The more distinctly we ask heavenly
things, which we feel at once God alone can bestow, which we are sure He
will bestow, the more direct and urgent will our appeal be to God alone.
The more impossible the things are that we seek, the more we will turn
from all human work to prayer and to God alone.

In the Epistles, in addition to expressions in which he speaks of his
p