Gunnison Gazette | 1909-03-26 | Page 5 | Plecing out the Prayer

Piecing Out the Prayer. Of curious prayers a writer says: "I have heard a layman utter this petition during the prayer: 'O, Lord, be thou with us in our upsittings an our down-risings' down-risings' a variant of the text in the psalms. 'Thou knowest my downsit-tings downsit-tings and mine uprisings.' A minister j 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 an hour, but long before this period pe-riod had been reached he was wound up. On one occasion,' while in this dilemma, di-lemma, he startled his hearers with the words: 'And now, O Lord, I will relate re-late unto thee a little anecdote!'"