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Copyrighted 1914 by

HENRY HARRISON BROWN.

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TO THOSE GONE BEFORE.

ORE homelike seems that vast un

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Since they have entered there!"

"They cannot be where God is not,
On any sea or shore!"

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RAYER of the religious life. vehicle through medicine is given. A valuable specific for the mental and spiritual disturbances that underlie all disease. it is a natural instinct of the soul. It is as natural for us under certain circumstances to look to a Supreme Power above us, or within us, for help as it is for birds of passage, at certain seasons of the year, to go south. We are drawn by a spiritual instinct to God in prayer because it is a part of the Divine plan that thus we should find relief. Prayer is a conscious recognition of our dependence and subjection to powers unseen, but superior to our own____The influence of a calm trust and faith expressing itself in prayer, uttered or unexpressed, over the functions of organic life, cannot be overestimated.-F. W. Evans in "The Divine Law of Cure".

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ORE things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or

goats

That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of

prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. -Tennyson, in "Idylls of the King".

O, God, give us the whirlwind vision! Let

us see

Clear-eyed, that flame creation we call earth,

And Man, the shining image, like to Thee. Let the new age come swiftly to the birth, When this Thy world shall know itself divine;

And mortals waking from their dream of

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