indorsed by Jesus Christ in His words "Watch and pray" and in His direction that men ought "always to pray, and not to faint."
If the Orientals thought prayer always meant a beseeching and asking for something, Paul would never have given the precept "Pray without ceasing." He knew that it meant communion with the omnipresent One, our life and very self, and communication to us of the vital, blessed gifts of God.
The worldly-wise man who grows rich thinks money, prices, property, ways and means, devices night and day in order to gain a prosperity that is but as a breath of wind. The man who would know eternal prosperity thinks God night and day until he sees and knows nothing else but that one supreme, blissful presence.
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