The Golden Gate of Prayer Author:James Russell Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THIRD at in HERE is wondrous uplift in the thought of the glory of the fatherhood to which we are introduced in Christ. Fatherhood itself means lov... more »e, tender, strong, and faithful; but when we put divinity back of all the love and goodness—Father in heaven—we make the vision enduring and eternal. Human fatherhood, beautiful as it is and rich in affection, is frail and uncertain. To-morrow it may be gone. God is our Father in heaven's eternal glory. Yet though he is in heaven he never forgets us. Our names are always before him. "Our Father which art." This is one of the great present tenses of the Bible. God is. He is not a being who merely was in the remote past, and is now only a memory. Nor is he a God who is to manifest himself sometime in the future as our Judge. He is. He is the living God. He is our Father and he is evermore our Father. There is never a moment when he is not near us, when his ear will not hear our faintest cry, when his hand is not ready to help. This truth of the living God who is our Father is wondrously rich in its meaning. In these learned days some men like to talk of the God of the universe as a great mysterious Force, at the centre of things, which in some way keeps all worlds and all things in being. But they deny to this great Power the elements of personality. They scoff the Christian teaching that this God loves us as his children, that he gives personal thought to any individuals of the race, that he knows our needs or concerns him- ' self with any of the perplexities of our life. But this naming of our God as "Our Father which art" reveals to us a God who is the same yesterday and to-day,—yea, and forever. All these nineteen centuries his children have been calling him in the same precious way. Moreover, the name Father sweep...« less