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_A friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him! He knocks again. "Friend! lend me three loaves. " He waits a while and then knocks again. "Friend! I must have three loaves! " "Trouble me not: the door is now shut; I cannot rise and give thee! " He stands still. He turns to go home. He comes back. He knocks again. "Friend! " he cries. He puts his ear to the door. There is a sound inside, and then the light of a candle shines through the hole of the door. The bars of the door are drawn back, and he gets not three loaves only, but as many as he needs. "And I say unto you, Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. "_ -ALEXANDER WHYTE, D. D.
Jesus Christ was the Divine Teacher of prayer. Its power and nature had been illustrated by many a saint and prophet in olden times, but modern sainthood and modern teachers of prayer had lost their inspiration and life. Religiously dead, teachers and superficial ecclesiastics had forgotten what it was to pray. They did much of saying prayers, on state occasions, in public, with much ostentation and parade, but pray they did not. To them it was almost a lost practice. In the multiplicity of saying prayers they had lost the art of praying.