What is prayer for? Not to inform God, nor to move Him unwillingly to have mercy, as if, like some proud prince, He required a certain amount of recognition of His greatness as the price of His. favor; but to fit our own hearts by conscious need, and true desire and dependence, to receive the gift, which He is, ever willing to give; but we are not always fit : to receive.— Alexander Maclaren. i ‘ ;• . ; , ‘
Like severed locks that keep their > light When all the stately frame is dust, • A nation’s songs preserve- from blight mtJD nation’s name,'o their sacred trust. ■:«? i ;v- jcmfrrvv- Ao .5050.% : —AUBREV DE VERB.
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New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1919, Page 15
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