inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him; the
childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us; the
simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit.
Above all, let us hold fast the blessed truth--we shall find
that the Lord has more to say to us about it--that the knowledge
of the Fatherhood of God, the revelation of His infinite
Fatherliness in our hearts, the faith in the infinite love that
gives us His Son and His Spirit to make us children, is indeed
the secret of prayer in spirit and truth. This is the new and
living way Christ opened up for us. To have Christ the Son, and
_The Spirit of the Son_, dwelling within us, and revealing the
Father, this makes us true, spiritual worshippers.

'LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY.'

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Blessed Lord! I adore the love with which Thou didst teach a
woman, who had refused Thee a cup of water, what the worship of
God must be. I rejoice in the assurance that Thou wilt no less
now instruct Thy disciple, who comes to Thee with a heart that
longs to pray in spirit and in truth. O my Holy Master! do teach
me this blessed secret.

Teach me that the worship in spirit and truth is not of man, but
only comes from Thee; that it is not only a thing of times and
seasons, but the outflowing of a life in Thee. Teach me to draw
near to God in prayer under the deep impression of my ignorance
and my having nothing in myself to offer Him, and at the same
time of the provision Thou, my Saviour, makest for the Spirit's
breathing in my childlike stammerings. I do bless Thee that in
Thee I am a child, and have a child's liberty of access; that in
Thee I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship of truth. Teach
me, above all, Blessed Son of the Father, how it is the
revelation of the Father that gives confidence in prayer; and let
the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength
for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.

PRAY TO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET

OR

ALONE WITH GOD.

'But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber,
and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense
thee.'--MATT. vi. 6.

After Jesus had called His first disciples He gave them their
first public teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. He there
expounded to them the kingdom of God, its laws and its life. In
that kingdom God is