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 YOU MUST PRAY. 
 
 UY THE REV. J. C. KYLE, B. A. 
 
 Reader, if you wish to have your soul saved, there is one 
 thing which you must never forget to do, you must pray. 
 
 Prayer alone cannot save your soul. Only Christ Jesus 
 can do that. His blood and nothing else can cleanse away 
 sins. But prayer is the only way by which men can make 
 known their wants to God. If a man wants his sins par- 
 doned, he must pray. 
 
 Of all the means of grace, prayer is by far the most impor- 
 tant. A man may reach heaven without learning, or books, 
 or knowledge, but no man ever reached heaven without 
 prayer. 
 
 Prayer is the life-breath of a man's soul. Without it we 
 may have a name to live, and be counted Christians, but we 
 are dead in the sight of God. The feeling that we must cry 
 to God for mercy and peace is a mark of grace, and the habit 
 of spreading before him our soul's wants is an evidence that 
 we have the spirit of adoption. 
 
 Prayer is the appoiuted way to obtain relief of our spirit- 
 ual necessities, it opens the treasury, and sets the fountain 
 flowing. If we have not, it is because we ask not. 
 
 Prayer is the way to procure the outpouring of the Spirit 
 upon our hearts. Jesus has promised the Holy Ghost, the 
 Comforter. He is ready to come down with all his precious 
 gifts, renewing, sanctifying, purifying, strengthening, cheering, 
 encouraging, enlightening, teaching, directing, guiding into 
 all truth. But then "He waits to be entreated." 
 
 Reader, believe me, if your soul is to be saved, you must 
 pray. God has no dumb childreu. If you are to resist the 
 world, the flesh, and the devil, you must pray : it is vain to 
 look for strength in the hour of trial, if it has not been 
 sought for. You may be thrown with those who uever do it ; 
 you may have to sleep in the same room with some one who 
 never asks anything of God ; still, mark my words, "you 
 must pray." 
 

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