Prayer—Nature and Evolution (Part 3)

The first prayers were merely verbalized wishes, the expression of sincere desires. Prayer next became a technique of achieving spirit co-operation. And then it attained to the higher function of assisting religion in the conservation of all worth-while values. But the truest prayer is in reality a communion between man and his Maker.

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