‘How well I know that feeling which you describe,--the feeling of being unable to pray fervently,--of being scarcely able to pray at all! This is probably caused ... by fatigue of body, and overstraining of mind and nerves. Perhaps God permits it, that we should just sink in complete helplessness at our Saviour’s Feet, and ask Him to pray for us, since we cannot pray for ourselves.... You may be like a very little child, that can’t even _ask_ for what it needs, but yet trusts and fears not.’