p. 260 | LET US PRAY MORE AND TALK LESS by E. Hilliard

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

LET US PRAY MORE AND TALK LESS

By E. Hilliard

BY E. HILLIARD.

How often we hear professed Christians speak of the example of faithful Daniel. They speak in terms of highest commendation of his secret worship and fidelity to God under his peculiar adverse circumstances. They also speak in terms of praise of David's devotional spirit, which led him to commune with his Creator seven times a day. And yet these same individuals seldom pray in secret. How dare we acknowledge the course of these great and good men to be right, and take a contrary course ourselves? Will indorsing their piety make us any more pious?

Many live in precept with the good of past ages, while their example has a most deadening effect upon present piety. Why not be consistent? No one can be as true to God as Daniel was without doing as Daniel did. No one can be Christian without living as Christ taught. He says: “Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” If we had less talking, and more praying, there would be more Daniels in the land.