PRAYER

It’s easy to be modern

When you live in a modern day,

To let the old slip from you

To let it slide far away.

2

All that’s “progress” is not progress;

All was not bad in yesterday.

How we need a fresh revival

Oh, how we need again to pray.

3

The grand old Book has been replaced

By religious movies and plays.

Great revivals were not products

Of “seminars” nor picnic days!

4

Praying has a way of making

A small canoe into a barge.

And also shrinking those “big” things

Till they aren’t quite as large.

– eab, Feb ‘07