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angels, exclaimed, “The Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.... This
is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
[
Genesis 28:16, 17
.]
“The Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence
before Him.” [
Habakkuk 2:20
.]
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Prosy, sermonizing prayers are uncalled for and out of place in
public. A short prayer, offered in fervor and faith, will soften the
hearts of the hearers; but during long prayers they wait impatiently,
as if wishing that every word might end it. Had the minister making
such a prayer wrestled with God in his chamber until he felt that his
faith could grasp the promise, “Ask, and it shall be given you,” he
would in his public prayer have come to the point at once, asking with
earnestness and faith for grace for himself and his hearers.