834 ERRORS IN PRAYER. to triumph in your own superiority, but to adore the undeserved mercy of God, in giving you blessings to which you have no higher claim, and let your praise of yourself be converted into prayer for them. For there are no dispositions of the heart which are more eminently pro- moted by prayer, than contentment and patience. They are two qualities of the same colour, but of different shades, and are generally, when found at all, found in the same breast. Both are the offspring of genuine religion, both nurtured by cordial prayer. .The cultivation of the one, under easy circumstances, prepares for the exercise of the other under more trying situations. Both emanate from the same divine principle, but are drawn out by different occasions, and exercised under varying circumstances. Content is the tranquillity of the heart, prayer is its aliment : it is satisfied under every dispensation of Providence, and takes thankfully its allotted portion,
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