who
trust Him for it_ their education in the school of prayer shall
be carried on to perfection. Let but the deep undertone of all
our prayer be the teachableness that comes from a sense of
ignorance, and from faith in Him as a perfect teacher, and we may
be sure we shall be taught, we shall learn to pray in power. Yes,
we may depend upon it, HE _teaches_ to pray.

'_Lord_, teach us to pray.' None can teach like Jesus, none but
Jesus; therefore we call on Him, 'LORD, teach us to pray.' A
pupil needs a teacher, who knows his work, who has the gift of
teaching, who in patience and love will descend to the pupil's
needs. Blessed be God! Jesus is all this and much more. He knows
what prayer is. It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to
pray. He knows what prayer is. He learned it amid the trials and
tears of His earthly life. In heaven it is still His beloved
work: His life there is prayer. Nothing delights Him more than to
find those whom He can take with Him into the Father's presence,
whom He can clothe with power to pray down God's blessing on
those around them, whom He can train to be His fellow-workers in
the intercession by which the kingdom is to be revealed on earth.
He knows how to teach. Now by the urgency of felt need, then by
the confidence with which joy inspires. Here by the teaching of
the Word, there by the testimony of another believer who knows
what it is to have prayer heard. By His Holy Spirit, He has
access to our heart, and teaches us to pray by showing us the sin
that hinders the prayer, or giving us the assurance that we
please God. He teaches, by giving not only thoughts of what to
ask or how to ask, but by breathing within us the very spirit of
prayer, by living within us as the Great Intercessor. We may
indeed and most joyfully say, 'Who teacheth like Him?' Jesus
never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He
did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of
praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing
how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is
the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.

What think you, my beloved fellow-disciples! would it not be just
what we need, to ask the Master for a month to give us a course
of special lessons on the art of prayer? As we meditate on the
words He spake on earth, let us yield ourselves to His teaching
in the fullest confidence that, with such a teacher, we shall
make pro