r alten Chineser_, s. 836.
This author observes that the Chinese prayers are confined to temporal
benefits only, and are all either prayers of petition or gratitude.
Prayers of contrition are unknown.

[130-1] Numerous examples can be found in medical text books, for
instance in Dr. Tuke's, _The Influence of the Mind on the Body_. London,
1873.

[131-1] The commission appointed by the Royal Academy of Medicine of
Belgium on Louise Lateau reported in March, 1875, and most of the
medical periodicals of that year contain abstracts of its paper.

[131-2] They may be found in the life of Pascal, written by his sister,
and in many other works of the time.

[131-3] It is worthy of note, as an exponent of the condition of
religious thought in 1875, that in May of that year the Governor of the
State of Missouri appointed by official proclamation a day of prayer to
check the advance of the grasshoppers. He should also have requested the
clergy to pronounce the ban of the Church against them, as the Bishop of
Rheims did in the ninth century.

[132-1] Tyndall, _On Prayer and Natural Law_, 1872.

[134-1] S. M. Hodgson, _An Inquiry into the Theory of Practice_, pp.
329, 330.

[135-1] The Rev. Dr. Thomas K. Conrad, _Thoughts on Prayer_, p. 54: New
York, 1875.

[135-2] I. John, v. 15. "There are millions of prayers," says Richard
Baxter, "that will all be found answered at death and judgment, which we
know not to be answered any way but by believing it." _A Christian
Directory_, Part II. chap. xxiii.

[137-1] "So wie das Gebet ein Hauptwurzel alter Lehre war, so war das
Deuten und Offenbaren ihre urspruengliche Form." Creuzer, _Symbolik und
Mythologie der alten Voelker_, Bd. I., s. 10. It were more accurate to
say that divination is the answer to, rather than a form of prayer.

[138-1] Joseph John Gurney, _The Distinguishing Views and Practices of
the Society of Friends_, pp. 58, 59, 76, 78. An easy consequence of this
view was to place the decrees of the internal monitor above the written
word. This was advocated mainly by Elias Hicks, who expressed his
doctrine in the words: "As no spring can rise higher than its fountain,
so likewise the Scriptures can only direct to the fountain whence they
originated--the Spirit of Truth." _Letters of Elias Hicks_, p. 228
(Phila., 1861).

[139-1] _Address to the Clergy_, p. 67.

[140-1] See an intelligent note on this subject in the Rev. Wm. Lee's
work, entitled _The Inspiration of