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 name, I will do it;" "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you." To ask the Father in the Lord's name, is to pray to the Divine through the Human—for in no other way can the Divine or the infinite God be seen, or thought of, or addressed, than as he was manifested in the Humanity on earth: Jesus Christ was "God manifest in the flesh:" "No man cometh to the Father," he said, "but through me:" "I and the Father are one."

Thus, then, it may be seen that, by the name of God is signified, in the highest or supreme sense, the Humanity which God assumed in the world—that Humanity, which, being glorified, became at length, and still is, and will for ever be, the Divine Humanity. Then, by hallowing the name of God, is meant, in this sense, to revere, to regard as holy, to worship, the Divine Humanity. When, then, we look up in prayer, uttering the words, "Hallowed be thy name," we should behold in thought the Lord Jesus Christ, in his Glorified Humanity, standing as it were before us, and smiling upon us; and to Him, as the true and only God, we should offer our humble petitions. Doing thus,—in the very act of uttering the prayer, it is answered; while saying the words, "Hallowed be thy name," we are actually hallowing it in the highest sense—by looking to the Divine Humanity and worshiping the Lord as God. And while thus hallowing his name ourselves, we should feel and express the wish and the prayer that his name may be more and more hallowed, that the Divine Humanity may be