Edinburgh, June 5h 1926"
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The following is lesson deserving the at
tention of many ministers OF all persuasons'
We cannot forbear asking the meaning OF
of the writer, where he tells us that long
prayers are "not uncommonly the offspring
Of death as we'll as the parent of it"


Long Prayers.-It seems tobe settled
principle with some good men to make their
prayers in social meetings as long as posi-
BILE. They exhaust all the powers OF atten-
ton in those who join with them. long time
before they come to conclusion. his prac-
tice has no sufficient apology. tits death te
all genuine devotion. Indeed, not uncommon
ly it is the offspring of death, as well as The
parent of it. IN all social meetings, prayers
should be short and comprchensive.-Ihe!
will then be edifying; all devout hearts ma!
unite in them. If they arc long, the spcake
will probably be the only person in the com
pany whose heart is engaged. Long prayers
and long addresses answer no good purpos
es.--Bo8t. Rec.