CONSOLATIONS OF PRAYER. '137 may safely omit humiliation and thanks- giving. To repeat the converse would be superfluous. When we can conscientiously say, that religion has given a tone to our con- duct, a law to our ,detions, a rule to our thoughts, a bridle to our tongue, a re- straint to every wrong passion, 'a 'Check to every evil temper, then, some Will say, we may safely be dismissed from the drudgery of prayer, it will then have answered all the end Which you so tire. somely recommended. So far froin really figure to ourselves, that if We could hope to hear of a being brought to such perfection ofdiscipline, it would unques- tiOnably be Found that this would be the Very being who would continue most perseveringly in the practice of that de- votion, which had so materially contri- buted to bring his heart and mind into so desirable a state, who would most trem- ble to discontinue prayer, who would be most appalled at the thought of the condition intowhich such discontinuance u 3
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