260 WILD LIFE ON A NORFOLK ESTUARY 



February 22. 53 



Be careful for nothing; but in everything by 

 grayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your 

 requests be made known unto God. PHIL. iv. 6. 



WE tell Thee of our care, 

 Of the sore burden, pressing day by day, 

 And in the light and pity of Thy face, 



The burden melts away. 



We breathe our secret wish, 

 The importunate longing which no man may see j 

 We ask it humbly, or, more restful still, 



We leave it all to Thee. 



SUSAN COOLIDGE. 



HPHAT prayer which does not succeed in mode- 

 rating our wish, in changing the passionate 

 desire into still submission, the anxious, tumul- 

 tuous expectation into silent surrender, is no true 

 prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of 

 true prayer. That life is most holy in which there 

 is least of petition and desire, and most of wait- 

 ing upon God ; that in which petition most often 

 passes into thanksgiving. Pray till prayer makes 

 you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it 

 in God's will. The Divine wisdom has given us 

 prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the 

 good things of earth, but as a means whereby we 

 learn to do without them ; not as a means where- 

 by we escape evil, but as a means whereby we 

 become strong to meet it. 



F. W. ROBERTSON, 



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