Without prayer the Christian life, robbed of its sweetness and its beauty, becomes cold and formal and dead; but rooted in the secret place where God meets and walks and talks with His own, it grows into such a testimony of Divine power that all men will feel its influence and be touched by the warmth of its love. Thus, resembling our Lord and Master, we shall be used for the glory of God and the salvation of our fellow men.

And that, surely, is the purpose of all real prayer and the end of all true service.

Transcriber’s Notes

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[580]success in the human adminisstrationadministration
[1002]Such an attiudeattitude
[1932]exhausted themslvesthemselves
[2396]floods of wordlinessworldliness
[2876]six miles to a minster’sminister’s
[3220]Let us come boldyboldly