work for which the
students are being prepared. I have wondered whether it might not be
possible to offer those who are willing, during their student life, to
put themselves under a course of training, some help in the way of hints
and suggestions as to what is needed to give prayer the place and the
power in our ministry it ought to have.
As a rule, it is in the student life that the character must be formed
for future years, and it is in the present student world that the Church
of the future must be influenced. If God allows me to carry out a plan
that is hardly quite mature yet, I would wish to publish a volume, THE
STUDENT'S PRAYER MANUAL, combining the teaching of Scripture as to what
is most needed to make men of prayer of us, with such practical
directions as may help a young Christian, preparing to devote his life
to God's service successfully, to cultivate such a spirit and habit of
prayer as shall abide with him through all his coming life and labours.
PRAY WITHOUT CEASING
HELPS TO INTERCESSION
PRAYING ALWAYS
WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
IN THE SPIRIT
AND WATCHING THEREUNTO WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE
AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL SAINTS
AND FOR ME
I EXHORT THAT FIRST OF ALL
SUPPLICATIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSIONS
GIVING OF THANKS
BE MADE FOR ALL MEN
FOR KINGS, AND ALL THAT ARE IN AUTHORITY
PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
_These "Helps" are issued as a separate Tract by
Messrs. Nisbet &. Co., price 2d._
_Anyone is at liberty to have the Tract reprinted, with
such modifications as may be desired._
PRAY WITHOUT CEASING
Helps to Intercession
=Pray without Ceasing.=--Who can do this? How can one do it who is
surrounded by the cares of daily life?--How can a mother love her child
without ceasing? How can the eyelid without ceasing hold itself ready to
protect the eye? How can I breathe and feel and hear without ceasing?
Because all these are the functions of a healthy, natural life. And so,
if the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy
Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
=Pray without Ceasing.=--Does it refer to continual acts of prayer, in
which we are to persevere till we obtain, or t
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