Show piecing out the prayer of curious prayers a writer says 1 I have h ave heard a layman utter this petition during the prayer 0 lord be thou with us in our up sittings an our down risings a variant of the text in the psalms thou my tings and mine uprisings A minister occasionally introduced a latin sentence into his prayer and forthwith proceeded to translate it another minister in his early days experienced considerable sid erable with the long prayer before the ser sermon nion in nonconformist churches this usually occupies les a quarter of an hour but long before this period had been reached he was wound up tip on one occasion while in this dilemma he be startled led hla his hearers with the words and nov now 0 lord I 1 will relate unto thee a little anecdote |