Excerpt from Sermons and Addresses
Our Lord"s Prayer is the most concise and comprehensive expression of the Spirit of Christianity. Its constant use in worship, public and private, is in recognition of its character as of the very substance of our faith. Prayer, though it readily drops into formality and insincerity, is yet the truest expression of our spiritual life. One in praying for what he desires is pouring out, from the fountain of the heart, its inmost streams. The fact that so many, with at least some degree of appreciation, can join in these simple words of our Lord"s Prayer reveals its identity with our common spiritual experience.
A most obvious feature of this prayer is its brevity. It comes under the principle, "Ye shall not be heard for your much speaking"; a principle so in conflict with human practice.
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