Bedside Watchman Our Daily Prayers

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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Our Daily Prayers

A business magazine published an account of a most successful salesman who maintained his efficiency by putting himself through a kind of catechism every morning, to impress upon his mind the excellence of his proposition and his determination to be successful. Perhaps his example might, with advantage, be followed on a higher plane of thought. Men may exhort themselves sometimes more effectively than they can be exhorted.

There is a very real wisdom in the institution of special evening and morning prayer, for it is at those that the mind is most plastic, and habits of thought most easily formed. Let a man deliver his evening prayer from the heart, and then, dismissing worldly thoughts woo sleep by thinking about the kingdom of God, and his mind will be in the right condition for the silent night's work of renovation. It is by the encouragement of such ennobling thoughts that the positive habits are formed and evil habits are excluded.

Islip Collyer, Conviction and Conduct, page 140