April 6, 2008
Public Prayer
By Orrin Root Prayer is the soul”s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Such is the classic definition by a poet whose own experience of prayer must have been deep and wide. When one knows God, every feeling of elation is praise, every joy is thanksgiving, every need or yearning is petition, and all these are encompassed in prayer. Public prayer, however, is at once more and less than this. It is more because it lifts to the skies the praise and yearning of a dozen or a hundred or
