ERRORS IN PRAYER. 333 of the destitute beggar that finds ac- ceptance. It is the hungry whom God's mercy fills with good things, it is the rich in his own conceit, whom his dis pleasure sends empty away. Whenever you are tempted to thank God.that you are riot like other men, be grateful for your temporal advantages ; compare your own condition with that of the afflicted and the bereaved among your own friends ; compare yourself with the paralytic on his couch, with the blind beggar by the way-side, with the labourer in the mine ; think on the wretch in thegalleys ; on the condemned in the dungeons ofdespotic governments ; on the miserable beings in our own pri sons, those loathsome abodes of sin and wretchedness. Above all, think, and this is the intolerable acme of sin in the inflictor, and of misery in the sufferer ; think on the wretched negro chained in the hold of a slave-ship ! Think seri- ously on these, and put pride into your prayer if you can. Think on these, not
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