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Title: Lord, Teach Us To Pray

Author: Andrew Murray

Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #26709]

Language: English

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Lord, Teach Us
To Pray

By Rev. Andrew Murray

Philadelphia
Henry Altemus

Copyright, 1896, by HENRY ALTEMUS.

LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY

OR

THE ONLY TEACHER.

The disciples had been with Christ, and seen Him pray. They had
learnt to understand something of the connection between His
wondrous life in public, and His secret life of prayer. They had
learnt to believe in Him as a Master in the art of prayer--none
could pray like Him. And so they came to Him with the request,
'Lord, teach us to pray.' And in after years they would have told
us that there were few things more wonderful or blessed that He
taught them than His lessons on prayer.

And now still it comes to pass, as He is praying in a certain
place, that disciples who see Him thus engaged feel the need of
repeating the same request, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' As we grow
in the Christian life, the thought and the faith of the Beloved
Master in His never-failing intercession becomes evermore
precious, and the hope of being _Like Christ_ in His intercession
gains an attractiveness before unknown. And as we see Him pray,
and reme