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"AFTER THIS MANNER THEREFORE PRAY YE."—MATT. VI. 9.

The model prayer which the Lord Jesus gave to His disciples has been a precious and most cherished treasure of the Church up to this hour.* Since those gracious words—words of infinite wisdom and infinite love—flowed from the lips of the Son of man, the saints of every age and every language have used them, and found in them the perfect expression of their deepest feelings and truest need, as well as the high ideal and standard of spiritual life, which on this