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(Flora Preston Shares Words From Her Own Experience To Comfort And Encourage)
Old Hymns And Poems
Prayer Is The Soul’s Sincere Desire
Prayer is the soul’s sincere
desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire,
That trembles in the breast.
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear;
The upward glancing of an eye,
When none but God is near.
Prayer is the simplest form of
speech
That infant lips can try;
Prayer the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high.
Prayer is the contrite sinner’s
voice
Returning from his ways;
While angels in their songs rejoice,
And cry, “Behold he prays!”
Prayer is the Christian’s vital
breath,
The Christian’s native air;
His watchword at the gates of death,
He enters heaven with prayer.
O Thou by whom we come to God,
The Life, the Truth, the Way!
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod;
Lord, teach us how to pray.
Words By:
J. Montgomery,
1771-1854