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Show Piecing Out the Prayer. Of curious prayers a writer says: "I have heard a layman utter thls'pctltlon during tho prnyer: 'O, Lord, bo thou with us lu our upslttlngs an our down-risings' down-risings' a variant ot tho text In the psalms. 'Thou knowest my downslt-tlngs downslt-tlngs and mlno .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 enrly days experienced considerable con-siderable difficulty with tho.long prayer beforo tho sermon. In nonconformist churches this usually occupies a quarter quar-ter of an hour, but long before this pe-, pe-, rlod had been reached ho was wound up. On one occasion, while In this dilemma, di-lemma, ho sturtled his hearers wlth'tho words: 'And now, O Lord, I, will relate re-late unto thee a little anecdote!'" |