Editorial July 25, 1903 Issue

The True Prayer

The following published extract from a sermon by President Angell at the University of Michigan, so emphasizes the need for prayer, and places it upon so true and rational a basis as to command more than passing notice.

He is quoted as saying:—

"In the prayerfulness of our Lord we find a most worthy example for the scholar. If there was a being on earth who, it would seem, could afford to dispense with prayer, whose unaided resources would suffice for any exigency, that being was Jesus Christ. But his life was pre-eminently a life of prayer. The windows of his soul were always open heavenward, and in answer to his prayer gales of inspiration from heaven were always filling his heart. The very source of his life and power was in his constant and prayerful communication with his Father. He taught his followers in all persuasive ways, by word and by example, that they should go to the same source for strength and light."

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