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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."-Rom. viii. 26.
"... And therefore both young and old ought to be very earnest about their repentance,... and to pray to God always heartily, and to ask of Him those things which ought to be asked of God; ... in some measure also, if possible, by deeds of mercy towards the poor, to help their penitence ..." Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. ii. p. 453.
"Not merely from anger, but altogether from all perturbations of the mind, onght the exercise of prayer to be free, uttered from & spirit such as is the Spirit unto whom it is sent. For a defiled Spirit cannot be acknowledged by a boly Spirit, nor a sad by a joyful, nor a fettered by a free. No one grants reception to his adversary : no one grants admittance except to his compeer."-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xi. p. 188.
“The Saviour showed to the beleving apostles prayer to be stronger than faith in the case of a demoniac, whom they could not cleanse, when He said, "Such things are accomplished by prayer.' He who has believed has attained forgiveness of sins from the Lord; but he who has attained knowledge, inasmuch as he no longer sins, obtains from himself the forgiveness of the rest."A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 121.
Prayer and thanksgiving are really to be addressed to the divinity of one's own self, for all the good things one enjoys are due to its being and presence. Prayer was one of those observances which were kept secret from the new-comers and from those who were not fully enlightened in the early Christian Church.
“Fasting was instituted for the humiliation of the body." 'Penitential Discipline in the Early Church,' p. 158.
"For the people, after crossing the sea, and being carried abont in the desert during forty years, although they were there nourished with divine supplies, nevertheless were more mindful of their belly and of their gullet than of God. Thereupon the Lord, driven apart into desert places after baptism, showed, by maintaining & fast of forty days, that the man of God lives not by bread alone,' but by the word
