PRAYER AND ITS EFFECT by Dr. Hamilton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

PRAYER AND ITS EFFECT.

By Dr. Hamilton

Among the forms of insect life there is a little creature known to naturalists which can gather around itself a sufficiency of atmospheric air, and so clothed upon it descends into the bottom of the pool, and you may see the little diver moving about dry, and at his ease, protected by his crystal vesture, though the water all around and above be stagnant and bitter. Prayer is such a protector; a transparent vesture—the world sees it not; a real defense—it keeps out the world. By means of it the believer can gather so much of heavenly atmosphere around him, and with it descend into the putrid depths of this contaminating world, that for a season no evil shall touch him; and he knows when to ascend for a new supply. Communion with God kept Daniel pure in Babylon.—Dr. Hamilton.