PRAYER Its Nature and Scope BY H. CLAY TRUMBULL New York Cuicaco Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company Publishers of Evangelical LiteratureANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY JUN 3 1913 ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OQ b4, 43 Corvrict, 1896, aw H, CLAY TRUMBULL.Preface These thoughts about prayer are not mainly devotional, nor are they designed chiefly for the encouragement of those who already have rest in their enjoyment of prayer. They were written primarily for the meeting of difficulties which trouble many minds with reference to the true basis of prayer, its scope, and its limitations. They are to point out to doubters the reasons for and the reasonableness of fit- ting prayer, and to suggest caution and warning as to the mode and matter of prayer, rather than to urge to a continu- ance of a practice already appreciated by spiritually minded believers. Many of these thoughts have been brought out in hours of earnest discussion with inquiring or anx- ious minds, at various places and at widely different times. il