"He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small."
It is better to work for the general good, to help our weak or
friendless fellow-creatures, than to pray for our own grace, or
benefit, or pardon. Work is nobler than prayer, and far more
dignified.

And as to praise, I cannot imagine the Creator of the Universe
wanting men's praise. Does a wise man prize the praise of fools?
Does a strong man value the praise of the weak? Does any man of
wisdom and power care for the applause of his inferiors? We make
God into a puny man, a man full of vanity and "love of approbation,"
when we confer on Him the impertinence of our prayers and our adoration.

While there is so much grief and misery and unmerited and avoidable
suffering in the world, it is pitiful to see the Christian millions
squander such a wealth of time and energy and money on praise
and prayer.

If you were a human father, would you rather your children praised
you and neglected each other, or that brother should stand by brother
and sister cherish sister? Then "how much more your Father which
is in Heaven?"

Twelve millions of our British people on the brink of starvation!
In Christian England hundreds of thousands of thieves, knaves,
idlers, drunkards, cowards, and harlots; and fortunes spent on
churches and the praise of God.

If the Bible had not habituated us to the idea of a barbarous God
who was always ravenous for praise and sacrifice, we could not