PRAYER

 

"We will start with the theme of prayer. Prayer on this side is altogether different from the wordings and ascriptions of praise of earthly communicants. We do not pray regularly. We do not have Sunday services in which are laws and regulations for drawing near to the Divine. We are filled at times with a recognition of the Great and Good and Loving Power above and beyond us. Our praise is more a spontaneous expression of love and joy that we are cared for by the Supreme Being, and we never doubt this or grow indifferent to it.

 

"This is our praise and prayer, a happy living recognition of the Creator, and the…"

 

There was a short pause.

 

"I only wished to tell you how very far away we are from the ordered service, with its written hymns and prayer, or formulas for addressing the Most High. Love, spontaneous and ever-present love, and joy in that love, is our worship."

'You have no meetings then?'

"Sometimes we find ourselves in company with those who praise with us without formal preparation and without any law of praise or service.

"Our prayer is like the sunshine, or the fragrant wind

"No, I cannot describe it. But it is an exquisite quality of joy, and expression of that joy, as we turn toward the Author of all joy.

 

At another time they referred to prayer as follows:—

 

"There is much liberty of expression here, also much difference of feeling. Many retain some of their former expressions.