PRAYER may be understood widely, so as to include every form of address from man to God, whatever its character. Hannah’s song is a thanksgiving, yet it is introduced by the words “Hannah prayed and said”. The prayer of Habakkuk is a psalm. In the larger sense of the word, as the spiritual language of the soul, prayer is intercourse with God, often seeking no end beyond the pleasure of such intercourse. It is praise; it is congratulation; it is adoration of the Infinite Majesty;