The Prayer Of Prayers

Cartyle, in hi Iaat years. wrdte to a lifeloii; Iriend: " 'Onr 'Fallier, whtcb art in Hiaven, hallowed be thy name, tliy will be done;' what elsc can we say ? The other uijrht, in iny slecpli'ss tossings about, which weregrowing more and more miserable, these words, that brief and grand prayer, OOM stranjrrly to my mlnd with altogctln-r ncw iinplmsi-, m il' witliiu and sliining for me in mild pure splendor, on the dark bosom of the uigbl tliere; hen I, as it were, read tlicm word by word - with a suddeii check to ïiiv imperfect wanderinfrs, witli a sudden softness of coniposure which was mucli uiiexpectcil. Not for perhaps thirty orlbrtj' ycars had I ever foriuully rep6Rted ibat prayer - nay, [ ncver feit bef'ore how inUvisely the voice of nian's soiU itis; the inniost aspiration of all that is high and pious in poor human nature; right worthy to be recommended with an 'After this mannerprayye.' " - Mich. Christian Advocate, April 30, 'Öl.