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HAT a precious privilege it is

for a family to kneel down,

every morning and night, and

lift up their hearts in prayer to
God! I do love to see the father and
mother, the brothers and sisters, all asking
their heavenly Father for his blessing: I
wonder how any body can neglect to pray.
What reason has such a person to expect
that God will take care of him? How
unkind and ungrateful it is too, to forget
to thank our Creator for the good things
he is-eontinually giving us. Some people
seem to doubt whether it does any good
to pray. They say they are just as happy
without prayer as they would be with it.
They don’t think that prayer is worth
what it costs. Perhaps they laugh at the
man who prays every day, just as regular-
ly as he eats his meals. But such people
are greatly mistaken. God hears prayer,
and he answers it, too. He has promised
to do so. in his Holy Bible. What reason

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Daily Bread.”
has any body to doubt that he will keep
his promise ?

Did you see that’ poor man who sat in
the gallery of the church last Sabbath,
with his children around him? Did you
see how attentive he was to all the minis-
ter said? and did you notice the tears
that rolled down his sun-burned cheeks ?
That man is a child of God. God loves
him, dwells in his house, hears him when
he prays, answers his prayers, for Christ's
sake, comforts him when he is sad, “cheers
him when he is discouraged. And be-
sides all this, that man has laid up 4
treasure in heavem-—a treasure worth a
thousand times as much as all the gold
in California—and_ by and by he is going
to that happy world to enjoy his treasure.
Yes, God hears, when this servant of his
asks for a blessing. He is a poor maz, it
is true. His rich neighbors do not think
much of him. They never dream of in-
viting him and his family to their splendid