[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0929":3},"SEPTEMBER 29\r\nI will give myself unto prayer (Psalm 109:4).\r\nWe are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in\r\nminutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much\r\nof his time in prayer? Did ever a man exhibit much of the spirit of prayer, who did not devote much time in his closet?\r\n\r\nWhitefield says, \"Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground, in silent or vocal prayer.\" \"Fall upon your knees and\r\ngrow there,\" is the language of another, who knew whereof he affirmed.\r\nIt has been said that no great work in literature or science was\r\never wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in\r\nholiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often, and long, alone with God. --The Still Hour.\r\n\"Come, come,\" He saith, \"O soul oppressed and weary, Come to the shadows of my desert rest;\r\nCome walk with Me far from life's babbling discords, And peace shall breathe like music in thy breast.\"",1783499793899]