PUBLISHED BY CROSBY, NICHOLS, & CO., FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN UNI- B.V 210 сь 1854 Cop. 1 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. "Der Regierung der durch Menschliche Freiheit bewegten Welt ist nur möglich durch die Einwirkung göttlicher Freiheit. Diese Einwirkung giebt den philosophischen Begriff des Wunders, welches daher nur mit der Vorsehung selbst geleugnet werden konnen." - HASE, Lehrbuch der Dogmatik, § 150. PREFACE. THERE are two kinds of Prayer, the Prayer of Faith and the Prayer of Form. Men must either pray in earnest, because they expect their prayer to accomplish something, and ask God for what they want just as they would ask any one else, expecting to get it; and this kind of prayer I call the Prayer of Faith. Or they must pray as a matter of propriety, and from a sense of duty, because prayer is beautiful, or because prayer is commanded; and this kind of prayer I call the Prayer of Form. Now when people get to praying as a form, - a proper, beautiful, excellent form though it be, they will soon leave off praying at all. A certain insincerity is felt in such a work. We cannot go on with it. To speak to God, and ask him to give us this and that, time believe that we shall get a* when we all the it not a whit the |