with strong crying and tears, how much more needful is it for us, who in many things offend daily? What shall we say to those who never pray at all, in the face of such a passage as this? There are many such, it may he feared, in the list of baptized people,—many who rise up in the morning without prayer, and without prayer lie down at night,—many who never speak one word to God. Are they Christians? It is impossible to say so. A praying Master, like Jesus, can have no prayerless servants. The Spirit
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