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Street Meeting Sixteenth

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The sacred narrative recorded within the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke was bequeathed to us by our blessed Redeemer for a singular and hallowed purpose: to impress upon the saints of every passing generation the solemn truth that 'men ought always to pray, and not to faint.' (Luke 18:1) Herein, the Master unveils that indelible mark by which the true followers of the Lamb are known—that they do 'cry day and night unto Him.' (Luke 18:7) Let it not be supposed, however, that we are called to a life of perpetual seclusion, divorced from our duties; rather, it is that our inward frame and the very breath of our spirits should abide in a state of unceasing communion with the Almighty, our thoughts ever ascending to the throne of grace amidst the labors of the day. Not all which bears the name of prayer is accepted as such in the courts of Heaven, even as not every soul that professes the name of Christ shall be found among His jewels. It is ...