Alone With God

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Excerpt from Alone With God: A Manual of Devotions This little volume owes its existence to numerous requests, especially from those young in years, or in Christian experience, for some work that would assist them in learning how to pray. Remembering that when the disciples came to Jesus with a similar request he did not refuse them, the author felt that it would be in harmony with the spirit of the Masters example to respond to this request in the best manner he could. I am not unaware of the prejudice that exists among us, in common with most Protestant bodies, against printed forms of prayer. Within certain limits this aversion to forms is no doubt founded in reason. What is purely formal and perfunctory, can have no value as worship. To read a prayer, or to say a prayer, is not necessarily to pray. To use forms without the spirit is the constant tendency in all worship, no less in song than in prayer. And yet, forms are necessary. We could improvise our words in song, but printed hymns, carefully prepared, are much better, despite our tendency to forget the sentiments of the familiar lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.