Effectual Prayer

There is an awf ui aniount of so called prayer that is oiily from the throat ontward; it begins nowhere and ends iu nothirjg. Such poiutless repetitious of stereotyped parases must be as wesrisome to (iod as they are nplcfitablp to the ntterers. There munt be pith, poiut and parpóse as veil as faith in evej-y effectaal prayer. At au evaugelistic meetiug for "roaghs" over in New York, wheu the leader called on some one to pray, ;i hard i king character iii the crowd árese ciid t.i: "O Lord, forgive me for lens; a bad man, and please excuse me, Lord, trom sayijog any more uow. Amen.'1 He did not need to say auy more. He had tolrt God jast what he