The Meaning of Prayer - Classic Reprint Author:Harry Emerson Fosdick DAILY READINGS First Day, First Week Samuel Johnson once was asked what the strongest argument for prayer was, and he replied "Sir, there is no argument for prayer." One need only read Dr Johnson's own petitions, such as the one below, to see that be did not mean by this to declare prayer irrational; he meant to stress the fact that praying is f... more »irst of all a native tendency. It is a practice like breathing or eating in this respect, that men engage in it because they are human, and argue about it as best they can. As Carlyle stated it in a letter to a friend: " Prayer is and remains the native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." Consider this universal tendency to prayer as revealed in "Solomon's prayer" at the dedication of the temple: Moreover concerning the foreigner, that Is not of thy people lsrael, when he shall come from a far country Of thy great Dame's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thine outstretched arm; when they shall
Table of Contents
PREFACE ? VD; I THE NATURALNESS 011 PRAYER I; n PRAYER AS COM~UNION WITH GOD 20; III Goo's CARE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL 39; IV PRAYER AND THB GOODNESS OF Goo ? 55; ? v HINDRANCES ASD DtFFIcULTI~S 71; VI PRAYER AND THE REIGN OF LAW 9z; VII UNANSWERED PRA ¥ER 114; VIII PRAYER AS DOMINANT DESIRE ? 134-; IX PAA YER AS A BATTLElnELD IS4; X UNSELFISHNESS IN PRA YRR 174; SELHCTBO BIBLIOGRAPHY ? 197
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