BY JOSEPH HART.
A PRAYERLESS spirit is not the spirit of Christ. Prayer to a Christian is as necessary as food to a natural man. The usual way of going to heaven is through much tribulation; the sinner who is drawn to Christ is not he that has learned that he is a sinner by head knowledge, but that feels himself such by heart contrition. He that believeth hath an unction from the Holy One; a true Christian is as vitally united to Christ as my hand or foot to my body, consequently suffers and rejoices with Him. Where there is true faith, there will be obedience and the fear of God; he that lives by the faith of the Son of God, eateth His flesh and drinketh His blood. He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Christians are sealed by the Holy Ghost to the day of redemption; and to this seal they trust their eternal welfare, not to naked knowledge, or speculative notions though ever so deep.