This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...yields under the touch of prayer. The habit of criticism cannot survive the influence of prayer. If you are tempted to be censorious toward your neighbor, first stop and pray for him. The critical spirit and the prayerful spirit are at opposite poles. Try praying for those that persecute you. A deep sense of freedom in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...yields under the touch of prayer. The habit of criticism cannot survive the influence of prayer. If you are tempted to be censorious toward your neighbor, first stop and pray for him. The critical spirit and the prayerful spirit are at opposite poles. Try praying for those that persecute you. A deep sense of freedom in the soul, a conscious experience of sonship of the Father, is the promised result. Many a man is bound in his own life because he does not let his soul out in prayer for others. The turning point comes when the soul loves and prays. Old enmities and bondages disappear. It is a new and beautiful era in one's spiritual history. C&e (c)ift of %ptttb "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Matthew 12:34. HOW wonderful man is: first that he thinks, then that his thoughts may flow out upon the air in sounds, letters, syllables, words, sentences, orations, sermons. Sometimes his speech is as "Linked sweetness long drawn out." Again it is like the thunder in power or the wind in roughness. Again it is like a stream from the mountain, rushing, dashing, leaping, in the haste of its descent, or tinkling like bells as it drops in the waterfall, or resting quietly in calm and shadowy pools. The plainest speech of the most unlearned is no less than a marvel. Since the world began men have prized the arts of speech, and have counted it worth while to gain power and grace of utterance, whether in oratory, in teaching, or in conversation. A thousand of our joys almost can be traced to the gift of speech, which daily blesses us and makes us a blessing. How thankful we ought to be for the sound of human voices. A father sent his deaf and dumb child to a school, and after some months he went to visit her. The child saw .
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