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PRINCIPAL ACTS OF PRAYER

any man love me," says Our Lord, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him and We will make our abode with him." ¹

This is the most perfect method of placing oneself in the presence of God for the purpose of prayer, which is an intimate conversation with God, and in course of which it is fitting that we should seek for Him in the sanctuary of our souls, where He dwells as a most devoted Friend, a most tender Father. This thought was particularly dear to the Saints, many of whom liked to think of God as handing over the government of the world to His Angels for a time, so as to belong to them wholly and entirely during their prayer; just as a king entrusts the manage- ment of the state to his ministers for a short space, so as to enjoy without restraint the pure pleasures of family life with his children. A most pious, touching and, at the same time, correct thought, for God gives Himself as entirely to the soul in prayer as if it alone, of all the universe, were in exist- ence.

The best method, however, for each individ- ual soul is to place itself in the presence of

1 John 14: 23.