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“Our public prayers too often consist almost entirely of passages of Scripture—not always judiciously chosen or well arranged—and common-place phrases, which have been transmitted down for ages, from one generation to another, selected and put together just as we would compose a sermon or essay, while the heart is allowed no share in the performance; so that we may more properly be said to make a prayer than to pray .”
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