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Abimelech absurd admit adversary alter answer to prayer Apostles appeal assail avenge believe benefit Bible blessing child Christianity cian comfort contradict theology course of nature deny divine earth efficacy of prayer ence equally eternal order exercise existence expect experience faint faith Father feel freedom a fact friends give God's elect grant gravitation healed heart heaven help in difficulty Hezekiah influ influence irresistible action John Wilson judge listen Lord mind miracle moral mother natural laws natural sphere necessity never Nineveh operation ourselves parent philosophers physical forces physical law REASONABLENESS AND EFFICACY reasonableness of prayer Rebekah regarded religion result revelation righteous Santil sceptics Sennacherib sheep and goats sinner sorrow soul sparrows spiritual sphere succor Sunday school supplication surely taught Thee things better THOMAS HILL Thou told trouble truth universe unjust judge unto ural widow was answered wisdom wise word yonder
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Page 53 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 6 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Page 60 - Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! • Thomas Moore, 1779—1852.
Page 72 - And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bare long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 69 - Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 30 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 60 - But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants, that throw « Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe.
Page 68 - Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the son;' ' If ye ask any thing in my name I will do it;' and at last, ' The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.
Page 60 - O THOU who driest the mourner's tear, How dark this world would be, If, when deceived and wounded here, We could not fly to thee!
Page 71 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.