city of a little child; pray with the holy awe and reverence of
one in whom God's Spirit dwells and prays.

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TWENTY-SECOND DAY

WHAT TO PRAY.--For all who are in Suffering

="Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are
evil entreated, as being yourselves in the body."=--HEB. xiii. 3.

What a world of suffering we live in! How Jesus sacrificed all and
identified Himself with it! Let us in our measure do so too. The
persecuted Stundists and Armenians and Jews, the famine-stricken
millions of India, the hidden slavery of Africa, the poverty and
wretchedness of our great cities--and so much more: what suffering among
those who know God and who know Him not. And then in smaller circles, in
ten thousand homes and hearts, what sorrow. In our own neighbourhood,
how many needing help or comfort. Let us have a heart for, let us think
of the suffering. It will stir us to pray, to work, to hope, to love
more. And in a way and time we know not God will hear our prayer.

HOW TO PRAY.--Praying always, and not fainting

="He spake unto them a parable to the end that they ought always to
pray, and not to faint."=--LUKE xviii. 1.

Do you not begin to feel prayer is really the help for this sinful
world? What a need there is of unceasing prayer? The very greatness of
the task makes us despair! What can our ten minutes of intercession
avail? It is right we feel this: this is the way in which God is calling
and preparing us to give our life to prayer. Give yourself wholly to God
for men, and amid all your work, your heart will be drawn out to men in
love, and drawn up to God in dependence and expectation. To a heart thus
led by the Holy Spirit, it is possible to pray always and not to faint.

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