The Meaning of Prayer - Couverture souple

Prayer is the soul religion, and failure there is not a superficial lack for the supply of which the spiritual life leisurely can wait. Failure in prayer is the loss of religion itself in its inward and dynamic aspect of fellowship with the Eternal. Only a theoretical deity is left to any man who has ceased to commune with God, and a theoretical deity saves no man from sin and disheartenment and fills no life with a sense of divine commission. Such vital consequences require a living God who actually deals with men. In endeavouring to clear away the difficulties that hamper fellowship with this living God, the book has used the Scripture as the basis of its thought. But the passages of Scripture quoted are not employed as proof texts to establish an opinion ;they are uniformly used as descriptions of an experience which men have actually had with God. In a study such as this, the Bible is the invaluable laboratory manual which records all phases of mans life with God and God sdealing with man. A debt of gratitude is due to many books and many friends consulted by the author. In particular, Professor George Albert Coe, Ph.D., of the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and Mr Frederick M. Harris, of Association Press, have given generously of their time and counsel. Each chapter is divided into three sections: Daily Readings, Comment for the Week, and Suggestions for Thought and Discussion. This arrangement for daily devotional reading The Morning Watch, for intensive study, and for study group discussion, has met such wide acceptance in my previous book that it has been continued here.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University and Union Theological Seminary. Fosdick was ordained a Baptist minister at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at Thirty-First Street. Although a Baptist, he was guest preacher at First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street and then at the historic Riverside Church in New York City. Fosdick's sermons won him wide recognition, as did his radio addresses, which were nationally broadcast. He authored numerous books, and many of his sermon collections are still in print. He is also the author of the hymn "God of Grace and God of Glory" and the book A Guide to Understanding the Bible, which traces the beliefs of the people who wrote the Bible, from the ancient beliefs of the Hebrews to the faith and hopes of the New Testament writers.