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In this first volume, Hastings addresses the complicated issue of prayer. He explores the nature, principles, types, and value of prayer. Hastings also gives practical encouragement and advice for those beginning in prayer, as well as for seasoned prayers. Included are bibliographies, lists of books for further reading, examples, and a detailed table of contents.

but the understanding, occupied earnestly, absorbingly, under the guidance of faith, from first to last. The first ingredient in prayer is, not intelligence, but movement of the spirit—of the soul. The raw material of prayer, so to put it, is a vague aspiration of the soul towards its true Object. “Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, So longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God; Yea even for the living God. When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?” The motive
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