A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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But he that never prays, rejects the golden key.

Colton.

Prayer is a creature’s strength, his very breath and being;

Prayer is the golden key that can open the wicket of mercy;

Prayer is the magic sound that saith to fate, so be it;

Prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of Omnipotence.

Wherefore, pray, O creature, for many and great are thy wants;

Thy mind, thy conscience, and thy being, thy rights commend thee unto prayer,

The cure of all cares, the grand panacea for all pains,

Doubt’s destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.