“Of course I am; I say my prayers every night.”
“But do you ever pray?”
“Didn’t I tell you I prayed?”
“But do you ever pray?”
“Why, of course I do; haven’t I said so?”
I found that he prayed, but he only went through the form, and, after a little, I found that he had been in the habit of swearing.
“How is this?” I asked. “Swearing and praying! Do your prayers ever go any higher than your head?”
“Well, I have sometimes thought that they did not.”
My friends, if you are not in communion with God your prayers are but forms; you are living in formalism, and your prayers will go no higher than your head.
How many people just go through the form! They can not rest unless they say their prayers. How many are there with whom it is only a matter of education?