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Rh some particular request. Thus, if you desire to know and do the Will of God, your prayer might take the following form: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord; O teach me Thy statutes. Lead me, O Lord, in the path of Thy commandments. O that my ways were made so direct that I might keep Thy statutes!"

And to ask of God all that you can ask, and what He wills we should ask of Him, use the Lord's Prayer, which should be said with the whole affection of the heart, and with all attention.

WOULD first advise you to make prayers (I do not now speak of meditation, of which I shall treat presently) short, in the way above spoken of, but frequent, full of desire and of actual faith in the help of God, which He will give, not in your way and at your time, but more effectually, and at a more fitting opportunity.

Secondly, always let your prayers be accompanied, either actually or virtually, with one of the following little clauses: "Of Thy Goodness." "According to Thy promises." "For Thy