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hope only for freedom of heart, and 

 pray to God with the greatest humility. 

 Thus, the aspiration after freedom will 

 soon be realized. This truth no one 

 will call in question who knows that it 

 is God who redeems Israel from all 

 foes, and not only Israel but all that 

 call upon Him with a contrite and 

 broken spirit. 



The first head of our teaching, then, 

 must be prayer, which we call the INVO- 

 CATION OF GOD, and see that it comes 

 not forth out of feigned lips, but is the 

 fruit of faith and confidence, like that of 

 the Centurion of Capernaum ; in humility 

 and contrition, like that of the Canaan- 

 itish woman ; in charity, like that of the 

 Samaritan who took up the wounded 

 man on the way to Jericho, pouring into 

 his wounds wine and oil, and paying his 

 expenses at the inn, with an injunction 

 that proper care should be taken of him ; 

 in brief, let the prayer be offered up in 

 that spirit of Christian charity which 

 desires to share what it obtains with its 

 neighbour ; then you will doubtless attain 



