For real business at the mercy-seat give me a home-made prayer, a prayer that comes out of the depths of my heart, not because I invented it, but because G.o.d the Holy Ghost, put it there, and gave it such living force that I could not help letting it out. Though your words are broken, and your sentences disconnected, if your desires are earnest, if they are like coals of juniper, burning with a vehement flame, G.o.d will not mind how they find expression. If you have no words, perhaps you will pray better without them than with them. There are prayers that break the backs of words; they are too heavy for any human language to carry.--_Spurgeon._
=December 30th.=
_Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi.
8._
Noah found grace in the same way that Paul obtained mercy (1 Tim. 1: 16), namely, by mercy"s taking hold of him.--_Selected._
=December 31st.=
_Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul. Heb. vi.
19._
Anchor to the throne of G.o.d, and then shorten the rope!--_Selected._