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CHAPTER VII
PRAYER AND WORSHIP
“After this manner therefore pray ye . . . Thy will be done.”
Prayer and worship seem to be of the
most intimate essence of religion. And
just for this reason, when separately
argued about and insisted on, above all
its other features they tend to become
distorted. Prayer, I suppose, is the
very meditation which is, or at the very
least which enables us to realise and
enter into, the unity which is religious
faith. Worship, inward or outward, is
in principle the same. It is some direction
of feeling, thought, or ritual which
