206 THE OBLIGATION OF PRAYER UNIVER- SAL. - REGULAR SEASONS TO BE OB- SERVED. - THE SCEPTIC AND THE SENSUALIST REJECT PRAYER. AMONG the many articles of erroneous calculation, to which so much of the sin and misery of life may be attributed, the neglect or misuse of prayer will not form the lightest. The prophet Jere- miah, in his impassioned address to the Almighty, makes no distinction between those who acknowledge no God, and those who live without prayer. " Pour out thy fury, 0 Lord, upon the heathen, and upon the families that call not upon thy name." Some duties are more incumbent on some persons, and some on others ; 11
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