OF PRAYER. 313 Divine teacher " knew what was in man ?" ' In treating of prayer, it would be a superfluous labour to address unbelievers with the same arguments or persuasions which we would humbly propose to such as aver, with whatever degree of convic- tion, their belief in Christianity. It.would be folly to address them with motives drawn from a book which they do not believe, or do not read. With those who are ignorant of the first principles of re- ligion, or those who reject them, we have no common ground on which to stand. St. Paul, with . his usual discrimination, has left us an example in this as well as in all other cases. With the philosophi. cal Athenians he confined his reasonings to natural religion. To the Jewish king, Agrippa, who " believed the prophets," in telling the story ofhis own conversion, he most judiciously introduced the great doctrines of remission of sins and justi- fication by faith. If the Pyrrhonist in question were to
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