also a prayer of suffering, and this is the most excellent and pleasing to God. It is a very common thing for us to complain of not being able to pray because we are ill, we are suffering acute pain, or we are in a state of weakness or languor. Did not our blessed Lord pray on the cross, and the martyrs on the scaffold? Actual prayer at such a time is impossible, unless it be at intervals, and by short aspirations; neither is it expected. But suffer for God; suffer with submission and patience; suffer in union with Jesus Christ, and you will be praying exceedingly well.
"Thus it is that a truly Christian heart can and ought to pray unceasingly, partly by consecrating a fixed time for prayer, partly by acting, and partly also by suffering."
IN SECRET
OFTTIMES within your very heart,
Where only God can see,
Just whisper low to Him these words:
"My heart I give to Thee! "
"What doth it profit?"
WHAT doth it profit to gain the world,
Or madly to seek as our goal
Its honors and glory, wealth and joy,
If we lose, in the seeking, our soul?
