eathing and praying in us amid all our feebleness His heaven-born
Divine petitions: what a heavenly thing prayer becomes.

The latter part of the above-mentioned book consists of extracts from
Law's letters. These have been published separately as a little shilling
volume.[3] No one who will take the time quietly to read and master the
so simple but deep teaching they contain, without being wonderfully
strengthened in the confidence which is needed, if we are to pray much
and boldly. As we learn that the Holy Spirit is within us to reveal
Christ there, to make us in living reality partakers of His death, His
life, His merit, His disposition, so that He is formed within us, we
will begin to see how Divinely right and sure it is that our
intercessions in His name must be heard; his own Spirit maintains the
living union with Himself, in whom we are brought nigh to God, and gives
us boldness of access; what I have so feebly said in the chapter on the
Spirit of Supplication will get new meaning; and, what is more, the
exercise of prayer a new attractiveness; its solemn Divine mystery will
humble us, its unspeakable privilege lift us up in faith and adoration.

[2] _The Power of the Spirit: An Address to the Clergy._ By WILLIAM LAW.
With additional Extracts and an Introduction by Rev. A. M. James Nisbet
& Co. 2s. 6d.

[3] _The Divine Indwelling._ Selections from the Letters of William Law.
With Introduction by A. M. James Nisbet & Co.

NOTE E, Chap. XI. p. 136

There is a question, the deepest of all, on which I have not entered in
this book. I have spoken of the lack of prayer in the individual
Christian as a symptom of a disease. But what shall we say of it, that
there is such a widespread prevalence of this failure to give a due
proportion of time and strength to prayer? Do we not need to inquire,
How comes it that the Church of Christ, endued with the Holy Ghost,
cannot train its ministers and workers and members to place first what
is first? How comes it that the confession of too little prayer, and the
call for more prayer, is so frequently heard, and yet the evil
continues? The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Supplication and
Intercession, is in the Church and in every believer. There must surely
be some other spirit of great power resisting and hindering this Spirit
of God. It is indeed so. The spirit of the world, which under all its
beautiful and even religious activities is the spirit of the god of this
world,