HIS PRAYERS.
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hearts around him, as they discerned the grace of God in him, and the quickening power of the love of Christ in his soul. No liturgy we ever heard could compare with it.”
His prayers were eminently Scriptural, and he made the Word of God his study and delight. He was to the close of his life the first of the family in the breakfast-room, and there he would sit reading the Bible until all were assembled, and he could begin family prayers. He read the Bible through every nine months, and the copy of the Scriptures in which his marks are preserved is treasured by his children.