EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS did not simply pray well that he mightiness write well just about prayer. He prayed because the inevitably of the earth were upon him. He prayed, for long years, upon subjects which the easy-going Christian seldom gives a thought, and for objects which men of less thought and faith are always available to call impossible. From his solitary prayer-vigils, year by year, there arose teaching equaled by few men in modern Christian history. He wrote transcendently just about prayer, because he was himself, transcendent in its practice.

As breathing is a physical reality to us so prayer was a reality for Bounds. He took the command, "Pray without ceasing" about as virtually as animate nature takes the law of the reflex nervous system, which controls our bre