Show Piecing Out the Prayer Of curious prayers a writer says I have heard a layman utter this petition during the prayer 0 Lord be thou with us In our upslttings an our down rlslngsn variant ot the text In the psalms Thou knowest my downslt tlngs and mine uprisings A minister occasionally Introduced a Latin sentence sen-tence into his prayer and forthwith proceeded to translate It Another minister min-ister In his early days experienced considerable con-siderable difficulty with the long prayer before the sermon In nonconformist churches this usually occupies a quarter quar-ter of un hour but long before this period pe-riod had been reached ho was wound up On one occasion while In this dilemma I di-lemma he startled his hearers with the words And now 0 Lord I will relate re-late unto thee a little anecdote |