New Light on the Old Prayer (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from New Light on the Old Prayer The invocation of this beautiful prayer is, "Our Father which art in heaven." It teaches the individual and universal fatherhood of God to each believer who prays, and to all humanity. Succeeding petitions indicate that the sphere of supplication and the scope of expectation is the whole world. The solidarity of our race is found in its federal relation to Adam, its progenitor, and to Jesus Christ, who in a very real sense is the Saviour of all men, though specially of them that believe. Of Adam's one blood, St. Paul told the Athenians, God made all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth; and of that Adam St. Luke has these words, "which was the son of God." Israel knew the father name and applied it in a restricted national sense. In Moses' wonderful song appears this question relative to the Lord: "Is not he thy father that hath bought thee?" David blessed the Lord before all the congregation, saying: "Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, our father!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.