keeping to the point in hand.—Nec quicquam tunc animus quam solum cogitet, quod precatur, was serious advice from Cyprian: “Let the soul think upon nothing but what it is to pray for;” and [he] adds that therefore the ministers of old prepared the minds of the people with, Sursum corda, “Let your hearts be above.”* For how can we expect to be heard of God, when we do not hear ourselves, when the heart does not watch while the tongue utters? The tongue must be like “the pen of a ready writer,” to