The Teaching of Jesus

aven." How essential to prayer is a right thought of God it can hardly be necessary to point out. "When ye pray say ----" w

dow projected by our own minds, or a collection of attributes whose names we have learned from the Catechism, our prayers will soon come to an end.

Rather we must keep Christ's great word before us: "When ye pray, say, Father." There or nowhere is the answer to be found. Just as every wise father seeks to train his child to make of him his confidant, to have no secrets from him, to trust him utterly, and in everything, so would God have us feel towards Him; as free, as frank, as unfettered, should our fellowship with Him be. To put it under constraint, to fence it about with rules, would be to rob it of all that gives it worth, And, therefore, I cannot tell any man, and I do not want any man to tell me, what we may pray for, or what we may not pray for. "When ye pray, say, Father;" and for the rest let your own heart teach you. But if we are left thu