It was printed in folio at the Hague, 1650; and is appended to "a Form of Prayer used in King Charles II.
It concludes with a prayer to the eight Gods of the Jingikwan to grant the Mikado a long and prosperous reign, and that he may dwell peacefully in his Palace during the ensuing year.
Floods having been caused by pollution, prayer was made for fine weather to the Gods of Ise, Kamo, Matsu no wo, and Otokuni.
A common prayerat the present day is for "Peace to the country, safety to the family, and plentiful crops.
Gy[=o]gi spent seven days and seven nights in prayer under a tree close to the gate of the shrine, and was then vouchsafed an oracle in the form of some couplets of Chinese verse couched in purely Buddhistic phraseology.
Then the site of the Inami-dono was propitiated by prayer and offerings.
Others include a prayer for purity of heart, which is an idea quite foreign to the ancient Shinto.
A Buddhist priest of the province of Ise, having made prayer for 1,000 days at the Shrine of the Great Deity, saw on the thousandth day a bright object floating on the sea.
It appeared that they were fastened there secretly by the women of the place as a prayer for handsome lovers.
In what is called harahi-kuji "you write lucky or unlucky, or whatever your prayer may be, on papers which you fold up and roll into a ball.
Crops were not to be planted, domestic animals were to be killed, and all were to await in prayer and fasting the consummation.
With that, I was content to take a bit of exercise, and to finish with prayer what was lacking to me [for my meal].
The women round now began to understand, and they crossed themselves with a very human prayer of thankfulness that their husbands and brothers had been spared.
A short prayer followed; softly and melodiously Mrs. Carew asked for blessings upon the bowed heads around her, and the servants left the room.
With his right hand he held a crucifix to the blue lips that would never breathe a prayer to the Virgin again.
There was an indefinite remembrance of the steady, monotonous clang of a bell in the first hours, doubtless the tolling of the matins, calling the elect to prayer at midnight.
Or supposing he has to repeat the same prayer for a month or two, the cause of using it continuing, let him compare the earnestness with which he first said it, and tried to enter into it, with the coldness with which he at length uses it.
Such was the prayer of the penitent thief on the cross, such must be our prayer.
But, further, to bind them to the observance of this duty, the past was made the pledge of the future, hope was grounded upon memory; all prayer for favour sent them back to the old mercies of God.
For instance, he enjoins the Ephesians to "pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.
In all it tells us of the connexion between the new birth and faith; for what is prayer but the expression, the voice, of faith?
Shall we ask for an earthly inheritance, who have the fulness of an heavenly one; power, when in prayer we can use the power of Christ, or wisdom, guided as we may be by the true Wisdom and Light of men?
To the Philippians he says, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayerand supplication let your requests be made known unto God[5].
In His mediatorialprayer for them to the Almighty Father, before His passion, He expressed His purpose that they should be one.
Prayer is to spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
Adriano begs for his father's life, and Rienzi weakly relents, and grants his prayer on condition of the nobles taking an oath of submission.
Valentine, who is to be married that night to Nevers, obtains leave to pass some hours in prayer in a chapel.
For the moment her whole strength was concentrated in a wild prayer for outward calm.
You would say that it is timid, that it fears its prayer will not be granted.
O Giver of Life and Love Eternal, hear this, the solemn marriage prayer of Godfrey and of Isobel.
I can't see you kneeling all night with a white robe on, Father, inprayer before an altar.
There they knelt in front of the fire, as reverently as though it burned upon an altar, and Isobel said her prayer aloud.
He obeyed as a child might, though wondering, for somehow he had never connected Isobel and Prayer in his mind.
The Chief Pilot submitted their prayer to the Governess several times during the voyage, saying it was much worse to die than not to expend stores.
The farmer, busy with the feelings which the prayer had raised, sat with downcast eyes.
Harrison did not make an exception, for Faith's thought of him was constantly softened by her prayer for him.
They knelt there in the sunlight; but when the prayer was over Mr. Simlins felt half puzzled to know for whose sake it had been proposed.
If she held her breath to bear every one of her brother's steps as he passed by, she did not look at him; did not raise her head till his first prayer was ended; then her rapt gaze was as unwavering.
In the transient gleam of recollection and consciousness which preceded her death, a prayer for his welfare and protection, as fervent as mortal ever breathed, rose from the lips of this poor friendless creature.
With a fervent prayer that his patron saint, the devil, might see fit to overset his coach and break his neck before he reached the Palace, I turned from the window, and called Michelot.
And so that time may be allowed to intercede and appeal to the parent heart with the potent prayer of a daughter's absence, I shall take my lady from Chambord some three days hence.
Then I had the explanation of it as he lifted his right hand and made the sign of the cross, first upon himself, then in the air, whilst his lips moved, and I guessed that to himself he was muttering some prayer of exorcising purport.
You've spent your time collecting old china and prayer rugs.
During the opening prayer there was a stir in one of the pews behind Tessa; she did not lift her head, her heart beat so rapidly that she felt as if she were suffocating.
Perhaps she did not repeat the prayer as a charm," answered Tessa, in her clearest tones.
Perhaps the answer to your prayer has not all come yet; sometimes the answer is given to us to spoil it or use as we please, just as the mother gives the child five cents in answer to his coaxing, and the hap or mishap of it is in his hands.
He uttered something between a sigh and a growl, and the sisters saw that theirprayer was granted.
The Second Lesson was then read, and the fourth and concluding anthem, by Greene, chanted, after which the usual Thanksgiving and Prayer of St. Chrysostom were read.
The former imminence of danger from pestilence is shown also in the songs of the night-watchmen, who every hour exhorted to prayer for exemption from the plague, as well as from the terrors of fire, sword and famine.
He gave himself to God; composed with prayer His spirit to meet death; when overhead The swaying oak-limbs seemed to beckon him To seek the branches' shelter and support.
His prayer till death was that the Lord would bless His daughters, and distinguish them above All children of the earth.
But notwithstanding his prayer to the contrary, every body recollects how, exactly as Dr.
How far the effectual fervent prayer of this righteous father found acceptance in heaven, the reader will find perhaps by the time he has gone through our little book.
As he arose from his seat to go, he breathed a little prayer to God, that he might remember well what he had just been learning.
That Sunday night the voice of prayer was heard in the home of the Newcomers.
I go to prayer meeting, and always try to have a verse.
On certain days it is quite possible to try your fortune, by buying a paper prayer from the priest at the temple, chewing it up and throwing it through the cage at the image.
The cemetery was on the side of the hill, and every step of the way somebody stopped at a stone marker to fasten a lantern to a small fishing-pole and pin a prayer near by.
There wasn't even a smile as she quietly spoke of the many times later when with that same prayer she had tried to make less hard the after-horrors of war.
Besides the prayer of petition we find the prayer of thanksgiving.
This is a derivative characteristic of the prayer of petition.
In these cases, the song of praise clearly represents a development of the prayer of thanksgiving.
Indeed, their words are usually accompanied by express confirmations resembling the formulas of prayerand imprecation; the gods are invoked as witnesses of the transaction or as avengers of broken pledges.
The gift of consecration is the earlier and more common, just as the prayer of petition precedes that of thanksgiving.
Not infrequently, therefore, they are combined, particularly in the more advanced forms of the prayer cult, into a single prayer of thanksgiving and petition.
This is clear, above all, from the fact that repetition is most pronounced particularly in those psalms and prophetic songs which are of the nature of a prayer of petition and of the praises closely connected with it.
Praise, or, as it is called in its poetic forms, the hymn, is an even more pronounced feature of deity cult than is the prayer of thanksgiving.
By giving expression to his desires in prayer and sacrifice, man enjoys a foretaste of their satisfaction, and this, in reaction, enhances not only the desires but also the mythological conceptions fundamental to them.
The hymn is not usually classified as a form of prayer because, when externally regarded, it may entirely lack the motive of petition, and it is from the latter that the prayerhas derived its name.
The consecration gift corresponds to the prayer of petition, the votive offering to the prayer of thanksgiving; these prayers, accordingly, are spoken when the object is placed upon the altar.
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
