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A short method of prayer, and Spiritual torrents, tr. by A.W. Marston

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lO A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER.

truth to another, from one subject to another j but to keep themselves to one so long as they feel a taste for it : this is the way to enter deeply into truths, to taste them, and to have them impressed upon us. I say it is difficult at first thus to retire within ourselves, because of the habits, which are natural to us, of being taken .up with the outside ; but when we are a little accustomed to it, it be-comes exceedingly easy ; both because we have formed the habit of it, and because God, who only desires to communicate Himself to us, sends us abundant grace, and an experimental sense of His presence, which renders it easy.

Let us apply this method to the Lord's Prayer. We say " Our Father," thinking that God is within us, and will indeed be our Father. After having pronounced this word Father^ we remain a few moments in silence, waiting for this heavenly Father to make known His will to us. Then we ask this King of Glory to reign within us, aban-doning ourselves to Him, that He may do it, and yielding to Him the right that He has over us. If we feel here an inclination to peace and silence,