ve you your wrong-doing."

When Jesus was praying at a certain place and had finished, one of his
disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his
disciples." So he said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Our Father who art
in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive
us our wrong-doings as we have forgiven those who have wronged us. Help
us to resist temptation and deliver us from evil.'

"When you pray, do not do as the hypocrites who like to stand and pray
in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets so as to be
seen by men. I tell you, they have received their full reward! But when
you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who
is found in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will
give you your reward.

[Illustration: (C) _Curtis Publishing Company_

_The Prodigal Son_

Painted by Herbert Moore]

"When you pray do not say the same things over and over as do the
heathen, who believe that they will be heard because of their many
words. Do not do as they do. Your Father knows what things you need
before you ask him."

WHY WE SHOULD TRUST GOD

"Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, or what you
shall wear. Does not life mean more than food, and the body more than
clothing? Consider how the birds of the air neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not
worth far more than they? Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not
one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. As for
you, the very hairs of your head are numbered. Then have no fear, for
you are worth far more than the sparrows.

"Which of you by being anxious can add a single foot to his height? And
why be anxious about what you wear? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow! They neither toil nor spin, and yet I tell you, not even
Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of these. Now if God so
clothes the grass of the field which is alive to-day but to-morrow is
thrown into the oven, is it not far more certain that he will clothe
you, O men of little faith?

"Do not be anxious then and say, 'What shall we eat or what shall we
drink or with what shall we be clothed?' For all these things the
heathen are seeking, but your heavenly Father knows that you need all
these things. Seek firs