The Still Hour; Or, Communion With God
The Still Hour; Or, Communion With God
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Wliy is it, that to pray with open eyes seems either heartless or ghastly ? So, too, do we seek stillness and solitude. Only a Pharisee INTELLECT IN PRAYER. 65 can pray at the corner of a street, A truly devout spirit learns to sing from its own experience — * Blest is the tranquil hoof of morn, And blest that hour of solemn eve, When, on the wings of prayer upborne, The world I leave* Physical enjoyment is as much a drag upon the spirit of worship as physical pain.
We want nothing to remind us... of our cor- poreal being, in these hours of communion with Him who seeth in secret. We worship One who is a Spirit, A soul caught up to the third heaven in devout ecstasy, cannot tell whether it be in the body or out of the body.
These well-known phenomena of prayer suggest its purely mental character. They involve, also, the need of mental exertion.
^ We may pray with the intellect without praying with the heart ; but we cannot pray 5 66 THE STILL HOUR.
with the heart without praying with the intellect.' True, there is, as we shall have occasion to observe, a state of devotional culture which may render prayer habitually sponta- neous, so that the mind shall be uncon- scious of toil in it, but shall spring to it rather as to its native and wonted atmos- phere of joy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Wliy is it, that to pray with open eyes seems either heartless or ghastly ? So, too, do we seek stillness and solitude. Only a Pharisee INTELLECT IN PRAYER. 65 can pray at the corner of a street, A truly devout spirit learns to sing from its own experience — * Blest is the tranquil hoof of morn, And blest that hour of solemn eve, When, on the wings of prayer upborne, The world I leave* Physical enjoyment is as much a drag upon the spirit of worship as physical pain.
We want nothing to remind us... of our cor- poreal being, in these hours of communion with Him who seeth in secret. We worship One who is a Spirit, A soul caught up to the third heaven in devout ecstasy, cannot tell whether it be in the body or out of the body.
These well-known phenomena of prayer suggest its purely mental character. They involve, also, the need of mental exertion.
^ We may pray with the intellect without praying with the heart ; but we cannot pray 5 66 THE STILL HOUR.
with the heart without praying with the intellect.' True, there is, as we shall have occasion to observe, a state of devotional culture which may render prayer habitually sponta- neous, so that the mind shall be uncon- scious of toil in it, but shall spring to it rather as to its native and wonted atmos- phere of joy.
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