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  The Divine Light manifests to us the Angelic hierarchies by means of symbolical figures by force of which we are restored to the simple ray


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id: 14543
title: False Friends, and The Sailor''s Resolve
author: Unknown
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  [Illustration: LADY GRANGE READING TO HER SON. "Philip, your conduct has distressed me exceedingly," said Lady Grange, "Well, mother, I did not mean to vex you," said Philip, who was rather Lady Grange pressed her hand over her eyes, and a sigh, a very heavy "I shall not appear at the table," said Lady Grange, drawing herself up "But, Philip," said the lady earnestly again laying her cold hand on his "Friends!" faintly echoed Lady Grange, as she saw the door close behind My reader shall have the privilege of looking over Sir Gilbert''s The old sailor Jonas sat before the fire with his pipe in his mouth, weathered this day, old friend," said he; "we''ll be on the look out Jonas heard every word that passed between Johnny and Alie almost as of Johnny when he perceived that the book whose pages Jonas was turning "Perhaps he will not look at that picture," reflected Johnny.


id: 20379
title: A Narrative of Some of the Lord''s Dealings with George Müller. Part 1
author: Müller, George
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  meetings in brother Wagner''s house, was a meeting every Lord''s day evening Ball, missionary to the Jews, attended the Lord''s day evening meeting in time, and I had thus an opportunity of preaching twice every Lord''s day, beloved brother in the Lord, who, up to this day, has continued a kind and Here I preached again three times on the Lord''s day, none saying we wish known to us more fully than we knew Him before, as a prayer hearing God. As I have written down how the Lord has been pleased to deal with us wants at the time, I desire to speak well of the Lord''s goodness, after He In prayer we asked the Lord for meat for dinner, having no money to buy matter should be brought about by the Lord, my prayer concerning a house, show how, since that time, the Lord has continued to answer my prayers.


id: 21351
title: The Prayer Book Explained
author: Jackson, Percival
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  in God, but also faith in the words which we use, and in the people service, with prayers, praises, lessons, offertory, Consecration, Service of the Church" in our Prayer Book.) to the contrary, we shall use the Lord''s Prayer as an act of Praise and left out, that we may rejoice in the perfections of God. In like manner, when the Lord''s Prayer is ''set'' for Prayer, the thought meant in the Prayer Book Preface (Concerning the Service of the Church, Services our Intention is not Prayer but Praise, and the thought of God The Bible is read in Church as an incentive to the praise of God. It The Hymn calls upon all God''s creatures to worship Him--collectively in the Praise Service ends, with the Highest Thoughts of God and His Being. Worship-Forms used in the Prayer Service. in the Litany of 1544, by _O God whose nature_, &c., the prayer _for


id: 20245
title: A Narrative of Some of the Lord''s Dealings with George Müller. Part 4
author: Müller, George
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  is held on Saturday evening at the Orphan-Houses, to ask the Lord''s to the prayer meetings at the Orphan-Houses, I praise the Lord for Orphan-Houses, a brother in the Lord from Cornwall called on me and gave There being now again little in hand, I asked the Lord yesterday (Jan. 16, 1846) that He would be pleased to send in supplies, when almost send for the Lord''s work in your hands, having received blessing to my Orphan-Houses, and the Lord has kindly given me yesterday afternoon and called by the Lord to establish Orphan-Houses and Day-Schools for poor the Lord has repeatedly used to help us in time of need, I received 20l. all the labourers in the Schools and Orphan-Houses, to seek the Lord''s precious blood, in order that he may obtain confidence toward God. Supplies for the support of the Orphans, sent in answer to prayer, from Lord to supply me with means for the Orphan Work.


id: 28102
title: The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
author: Kingsley, Florence Morse
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  Ten minutes later, Miss Philura, looking smaller and more insignificant Before three minutes had passed Miss Philura Rice had forgotten that environment," she remarked to Miss Philura when the two ladies found Miss Philura''s blue eyes flashed rebelliously for perhaps the first time Miss Philura raised her eyebrows ever so little--somehow they seemed to living for six months Miss Philura bestowed but a single thought. Sunday morning following, when Miss Philura Rice, newly returned from enviously at the nodding plumes which shaded Miss Philura''s blue eyes. "I can not tell you that--now," said Miss Philura simply. Strangely enough, he had not heard of Miss Philura''s good appeared the name of Miss Philura Rice. The Rev. Silas Pettibone seated himself opposite Miss Philura and Church found conditions in the spiritual state of Miss Philura which "Miss Philura Rice," he said emphatically, "is one of the most THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA


id: 26033
title: How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time
author: Goforth, Rosalind
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  often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer. been written to the glory of God''s grace and power in answering prayer. Some years later, having moved to a strange city, a great longing came Surely the wonderful way God has kept his child for more than thirty peace of mind and the assurance that God would supply my need, came at protecting power of God in answer to the many prayers which were going by our prayers, the patient came through safely, and a few days later After several days'' fight for the child''s life came the that day to Changte, he prayed the Lord to open the hearts of the A year later I joined my husband there, with our three little children. One day Mr. Goforth came to me with his Bible open at the promise, "My wonder I can say I know God answers prayer?


id: 27288
title: The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord''s Dealings With George Müller
author: Müller, George
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  GOD--AN ANSWER EXPECTED AND RECEIVED--PRAYER FOR FAITH years he is led to believe that God has called him to establish a house German Christians, to help an aged brother in the work of the Lord. worth one hundred pounds a year, I gave up for the Lord, having then especial things which the children of God needed in our day, was, _to things of God. This, then, was the primary reason for establishing the orphan house. To-day the Lord has given me a house for the Orphan Boys, in day the Lord sent again some help to encourage me to continue to wait on To-day our need was exceedingly great, but the Lord''s help was whether the Lord might have sent any money in the mean time. establish schools and orphan houses, and to trust in the Lord for means orphan houses, schools for poor children, etc., and trust in God for


id: 25891
title: Answers to Prayer, from George Müller''s Narratives
author: Müller, George
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  believing prayer, the manifest hand of a living God, and His unfailing monuments of modern times to a prayer-answering God), gives in that most of the word of God, I lift up my heart to the Lord, that He would be especially, _give time to God_, who tries his faith in order to prove to this trial of faith I still believed that God would help, and to pray prayer, day by day calling upon God three times on account of this When thus he is reconciled to God, by faith in the Lord Jesus, and When thus he is reconciled to God, by faith in the Lord Jesus, and his confidence in the Lord''s help, God HAS sustained the work, and in by day that the money might be paid, believing that God in His own time "March 4.--_This very day_ God begins to answer our prayers, as we have


id: 22034
title: A Narrative of some of the Lord''s Dealings with George Müller. Part 2
author: Müller, George
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  Orphan-Houses, &c., just as brother C�r was sent two years ago, Orphan-houses, up to the end of June 1838, the hand of the Lord was the Orphan-Houses, to see whether the Lord had sent in a little. work.--Evening: This very day the Lord sent again some help to Infant-Orphan-House, but the Lord had not sent any more. the Orphans was sent today to service, and the Lord enabled us to this day has come to an end, the Lord has sent in 1l. shillings which were needed in the Boys� Orphan-House, the Lord, Orphan-Houses, which the Lord had sent in since the day before unto the last day of this fourth year of the Orphan-work the Lord has Today the Lord sent in again some money for the Orphans. Lord sent today still more, as that which came in yesterday was only the will of the Lord that, as all the labourers in the Orphan-Houses


id: 22148
title: A Narrative of some of the Lord''s Dealings with George Müller. Part 3
author: Müller, George
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  sisters in the Orphan-Houses, to whom I had some days since sent a given in time of sickness or more than usual need, as the Lord may be in the Lord Jesus; for none but the children of God do believe in Him. III. God, believe in his heart the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, if at Yesterday the Lord again, in His faithful love, sent in means Orphan-Houses, to see whether the Lord had sent in any thing. brethren and sisters who labour in the Day Schools and Orphan-Houses all this time the Orphans had every thing that was needful in the way Lord from Bath called yesterday at one of the Orphan-Houses and gave called by the Lord to establish Orphan-Houses, or Day Schools, or supplies which were needed this day in the Orphan-Houses, which supplies which were needed this day in the Orphan-Houses, which


id: 22295
title: On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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  _Religion_, on _Devotion_, _Prayer_, and the _Contemplative Life_, and rightly into the secret things of God. And by the merits of such prayer service to God can be an act of virtue according as a man does In prayer a man offers to God his mind, which he subjects to Him John Damascene defines prayer as "asking from God things that are ought not to ask for definite things from God when we pray. Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God? Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God? Again, man''s mind is meant to rise by prayer towards God; but words, God hears not the prayer of a man who when he prays does not give heed "He who asks of God in faith things needful for this life is the things a man receives from God: prayer is necessary,


id: 26709
title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray
author: Murray, Andrew
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  privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as as my teacher, Jesus, who is ever praying to the Father, and by worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth.'' From this worship in the spirit must come from God Himself. revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer; and let PRAY TO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET First, ''_Pray to thy Father which is in secret_.'' God is a God into the secret of God''s presence, the light of the Father''s love The Father is in secret: in these words Jesus teaches us door, and pray to thy Father, which is in secret. as if this thought made prayer less needful: God knows far better Father waits you, it is there Jesus will teach you to pray. prayer: ''Our Father, hallowed be Thy name.''


id: 26522
title: George Müller of Bristol, and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
author: Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)
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  So prominent was the word of God as a power in Mr. Muller''s life that, in may bow before the will of God. In a calm review of his course many years later George Muller saw that Muller led to put before God, in prayer, all matters that lay upon his years, George Muller was enabled to set to his seal that God is true. work in Halle George Muller''s monuments to a prayer-hearing God on God, by the fact that at that very time, in answer to prayer, ten pounds parted with their own money or goods in the hour of need, filled Mr. Muller''s heart with praise to God, and held up his hands, as Aaron and needful; but Mr. Muller felt no doubt that in God''s own time all that George Muller''s life was one long witness to the prayer-hearing God; FAITH, PRAYER, AND THE WORD OF GOD.


id: 11553
title: The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
author: nan
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  the head man of the place said to him, "Let us kneel and ask God to help said to him, "God has answered our prayers, and sent a bag of flour." It The Lord answered my prayer two days before I called on Him. One of the two came from New York to my home in a Western city to conversation one day, a short time after she came to our home, she said that God did answer humble, faithful prayer, and he turned to my friend laden, and a heart full of gratitude to a prayer-answering God. HOW THE LORD CONTROLS EVEN THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE RAILROAD TRAIN. God. The Lord, in mercy, heard your prayers, and answered them to the Lord answered their prayer the same day and sent _double what was asked I said, God had promised to answer prayer. "''Well,'' I said, ''God''s time will come; there are a great many praying


id: 12042
title: The value of a praying mother
author: Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston)
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  mother, who fashioned her life and example continually by God''s Word and friend like that!" "Never mind," said Mrs. Worthington softly; "God has mother asked the little girl to open her mouth, she said, "Mama, I "Bessie," said Mrs. Worthington, "those words were written by the wisest O mothers, let us learn that God, the Author of home and families, is One day as Mrs. Worthington stood beside her child she felt that God When Bessie got home the next morning, her mother asked, "Well, dear, disobey God. Not long after this talk Bessie had an experience in school that helped Nora''s mother, thinking it best to tell Mrs. Worthington about Bessie''s strange," said she, "that Bessie loves to stay at home and to be with from the home and the mother that were so dear to Bessie''s heart.


id: 7026
title: Children''s Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer
author: Shaw, S. B. (Solomon Benjamin)
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  When I was a little girl about nine years old, my mother gave me the "But," said the first little boy, "My mother Soon the elder girl said: "You know, Annie, that a good while ago Mother There on the side-walk did these two little children ask God to send Some said: "God bless the little girl." Hearing some person say a little child; and as he left home that afternoon and looked his last side, and said: ''I thank God that he ever gave me a little praying "But, Mama, I don''t think God wants little girls to come to Him when face, and said: "Father, if I should die, will you promise to love Jesus "Mother, you have forgotten my soul," so said a little girl, three years "I would not like to have my little boy go," said the mother, looking


id: 13196
title: Quiet Talks on Prayer
author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
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  A great sorrow has come into the heart of God. Let it be told only in The greatest thing any one can do for God and for man is to pray. touching hearts for God in far away India or China through prayer, as Prayer is man giving God a footing on the contested territory of this The man in full touch of purpose with God praying, insistently prayer that helps God in His great love-plan for winning a planet back to prayed for, of course I mean every right thing, God has already purposed humanity that we know, and great changes come when God''s Spirit controls. faith that comes of our regular prayer-touch with God. This extreme sort God; a secret intimate prayer-life: marvellous power over men and with we do not _know_ God. The great prayer of Jesus'' heart that night with the


id: 36891
title: Health, Healing, and Faith
author: Conwell, Russell H.
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  That prayers are answered nearly all the human race believe. thousand people, that the results of the prayers were but a cause and at the next church meeting prayers went up to God, asking direction how suggest to a member of the church that, as the people needed larger The church then purchased the lot and held another prayer meeting to the first time in three years the church had omitted its weekly prayer that God answered the prayers of Grace Church in giving providential that he had two special places for prayer, one being in the Temple and Only once did the people of the Temple falter and their prayers seem after all the asking of God and man for aid to build the Temple they Temple that God does answer prayer for the sick. asked for prayer were young people. the thousands of answers to prayer at the Temple there was found a


id: 37501
title: In Answer to Prayer
author: Knox-Little, W. J. (William John)
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  I have been asked to write some thoughts on answers to prayer. For what is the answer to prayer which the praying heart looks for? disregarded prayers have been most abundantly remembered before God. Thus, indeed, we can enter into the spirit of familiar words and 3. In the next place, the prayer that has power with God must be a asking for benefits from God. Christians believe that prayer _is_ a was a strong conviction that God would answer the prayer, and, the that time forward I would ask no man for money, but trust God for woman, said, "We must just pray that God will send what is needed," and unmistakable proofs that God answers prayer. anything of the love of God, that this prayer was speedily answered, and still feeds faith in God as the Hearer and the Answerer of Prayer.


id: 37143
title: Subconscious Religion
author: Conwell, Russell H.
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  opened his heart to a faithful Christian friend, that friend''s prayer with the Spirit of God. One man who has been long a teacher of at war pray hard and long for victory, and not even God can answer both. evil, that men never sin, that the Bible theories concerning prayer are presentation of the Christ to men must ever ask that God will turn aside asking the Lord to aid his own cause, or praying that Christ may soon appears to be to then leave each soul alone with God in silent prayer. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and God answers prayer.


id: 36899
title: Praying for Money
author: Conwell, Russell H.
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  The reports of the answers to prayer so often use the words "happened to small home prayed for a dress suitable for church and at that hour her the answer to his prayers as one whom "God has led into the fulfillment believer in prayer rests in God in a peaceful condition of soul, which established cases of successful prayer showed that the believer accepted believed that God often called an angel to him when the prayer of faith as it is not known what prayers were offered for that child''s recovery. But it does show how the Lord may work in other cases where prayers are prayed at his family prayers, asking the Lord in sobs to protect and The Lord''s Prayer is recited with profit in a formal church service, but preacher said, feelingly, "Let us pray!" The prayer in that hymn was


id: 41641
title: Just Sixteen.
author: Coolidge, Susan
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  stop, because I want you to get in for a little drive and then come home "Would you like me to dust your things?" she said quietly. "I like fun and pretty things and luxury as well as other people," she admired and commented upon; people said it was "so clever of Mrs. Brown," and "so much better than stiff things from a florist''s," and Georgie''s true knight, as it happened, was to come from a quarter little Georgie knew vaguely something of these "hard times." In the "old days," "We all worked hard, Paul," said Elma, "and we all like jam as much as only day when these special friends had time to come for a good long icings shone like snow-crust on a sunny day, little cakes with plums out; but the little girl did not look his way, and presently her father, until day after to-morrow," said little Gretchen; "because, you know,


id: 44950
title: Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic
author: Optic, Oliver
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  "It''s quite smoky on the river," said a young man, coming up to me as "I think I shall go as it is," continued the young man, looking at his "Farringford; I know a man of that name in St. Louis," replied he. "What do you wish to know in regard to that steamer, Phil?" he asked. "Come, Phil, we will see the room," said Lynchpinne, when we were in "I hope you haven''t much money about you, Phil," said my companion, as "The Daylight is just coming in, Phil," said Captain Davis, as I came "I didn''t think of taking a boy to board," said Mrs. Greenough. "Does that young man get two dollars a day?" I asked, pointing to a boy "The man asked if Phil was at home before he gave me the note," said "Young man, do you know the character of this house?" said Mr. Gracewood, looking at me very sharply.


