And are there not many prayers offered, not merely by Chinamen, that are machine prayers, soulless, heartless, meaningless, and faithless, and which bring no answer?
But how simple, how beautiful, how sublime, the golden Prayer which the Divine Master taught His disciples! Lord, teach us how to pray.

If the noble Liturgy of the Church is properly rendered,--for it is the expansion of the Lord's Prayer,--there will be no machine-praying, and the answer to prayer will be rich and abundant.

The contrast between the worship of the Joss and the worship of the true God in a Christian Church is striking and affords reflection.

The former is of the earth earthy, the latter transports the devout worshipper to the throne of the Most High.

There is no fear that the religion of the Joss-House will ever usurp the religion of the Christian altar.