Show P ed ng rig out the prayer of curious prayers a writer says t have 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 sen sell tence into his prayer and forthwith proceeded to translate it another min ister in his early days experienced con sid erable difficulty with the long ong prayer before the sermon in nonconformist churches this usually occupies a ter of an hour but long before this pe mod had been reached he was wound up on one occasion while in this di oll lemma he startled his hearers with the words and now 0 lord I 1 will re late unto thee a I 1 atle anecdote |