Fragment: Prayer: Alleviation to Human Anguish

 
"Men ought always to pray and not to faint " is ever before me at present. For ourselves, broken in pieces-our prayer is for oil on every part. That our sorrow may be such as shall magnify Christ in the very character of it; under any and all parts of it. And the prayer for this has been, as it must be, alleviation to the deepest human anguish that I have ever tasted.