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   1      The only civil sentence which he had for error was,
     "Get thee behind me, Satan." Still stronger evidence
   3  that Jesus' reproof was pointed and pungent is found
     in his own words,--showing the necessity for such
     forcible utterance, when he cast out devils and healed
   6  the sick and sinning. The relinquishment of error de-
     prives material sense of its false claims.
         Audible prayer is impressive; it gives momentary
   9  solemnity and elevation to thought. But does it pro-
     duce any lasting benefit? Looking deeply

    Audible
    praying

     into these things, we find that "a zeal . . .
  12  not according to knowledge" gives occasion for reac-
     tion unfavorable to spiritual growth, sober resolve, and
     wholesome perception of God's requirements. The mo-
  15  tives for verbal prayer may embrace too much love of
     applause to induce or encourage Christian sentiment.
         Physical sensation, not Soul, produces material ec-
  18  stasy and emotion. If spiritual sense always guided
     men, there would grow out of ecstatic mo-

    Emotional
    utterances

     ments a higher experience and a better life
  21  with more devout self-abnegation and purity. A self-
     satisfied ventilation of fervent sentiments never makes
     a Christian. God is not influenced by man. The "di-
  24  vine ear" is not an auditory nerve. [[[It is the all-hearing
     and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is
     always known and by whom it will be supplied.]]]
  27      The danger from prayer is that it may lead us into temp-
     tation. By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, ut-
     tering desires which are not real and consoling

    Danger
    from audible
    prayer

  30  ourselves in the midst of sin with the recollection
     that we have prayed over it or mean to ask for-
     giveness at some later day. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

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