CONSOLATIONS OF PRAYER. If disqualifying pain, or distressing languor, prevent the utterance of sup- plication, patience is itself a prayer, and a prayer which will not firil to be heard. We have a striking instanceof an answer to silent prayer, in the case of Moses. In a situation of extreme distress, when he had not uttered a word, " the Lord said unto him, have heard thy cry- ing." The tender mercy of our compassion- ate Father will make sense, and find meaning in a prayer which is almost un, intelligible to thQ languid sufferer who offers it. God wants not to be informed, he -Wants only to be remembered, to be loved, to be sought. If, however, in the conduct of this nightlywatching, and this nightly prayer, your own stock of thought or expression is absolutely deficient, prophets and apostles will not only afford you the most encouraging examples, but most profit- _ able assistance. More especially, the royal treasury of King David lies open to
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