Excerpt from The Christian Library, Vol. 4: A Reprint of Popular Religious Works Martha's parents were honest in their prayers and unsophisticated in their religious views; to pray and to act with them therefore, if not the same, were yet inseparable things. The believed with bishop Sanderson (it is the creed 0 common sense that prayer without exertion is presumption andt exertion without prayer is atheism; an they resolved to adopt the best means to realize their own devout desires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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