David MacIntyre
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David M'Intyre (1859–1938) was a Scottish Free Church minister who succeeded Andrew Bonar at Finnieston and later became Principal of the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow. He is best remembered for The Hidden Life of Prayer (1891), a devotional classic on the practice of prayer that has remained in continuous print for over a century.
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The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part I
[/caption] Read or Download (PDFs): Table of Contents, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 See Details of Book In one of the cathedrals of Northern Europe an exquisite group in high relief represents the prayer life. It is disposed in three panels. The first of these reminds us of the apostolic precept, 'Pray…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part II
The Equipment 'Remember that in the Levitical Law there is a frequent commemoration and charge given of the two daily sacrifices, the one to be offered up in the morning and the other in the evening. These offerings by incense our holy, harmless, and undefiled High Priest hath taken away, and…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part III
The Direction of the Mind 'Thou oughtest to go to prayer, that thou mayest deliver thyself wholly up into the hands of God, with perfect resignation, exerting an act of faith, believing that thou art in the Divine Presence, afterwards settling in that holy repose, with quietness, silence, and…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part IV
The Engagement: Worship 'We praise Thee...We give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O Lord God.' -Book of Common Prayer. 'Were there nothing else For which to praise the heavens but only love, That only love were cause enough for praise.'-Tennyson. 'Praise Him, ever praise Him, For remembering…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part V
The Engagement: Confession 'The garden of spices is sprinkled with red flowers.'-Heinrich Seuse. 'It is a great and rare thing to have forgiveness in God discovered unto a sinful soul....It is a pure Gospel truth, that hath neither shadow, footstep, nor intimation elsewhere. The whole creation hath…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part VI
The Engagement: Request 'Make me sensible of real answers to actual requests, as evidence of an interchange between myself on earth and my Saviour in heaven.' -Thomas Chalmers. 'O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part VII
The Hidden Riches of the Secret Place 'Prayer is the means by which we obtain all the graces which rain down upon us from the Divine Fountain of Goodness and Love.' -Laurence Scupoli. 'There was a poor widow woman in that countryside, as I came through, that was worth many of you. She was asked,…
The Hidden Life of Prayer - Part VIII
The Open Recompense 'Jesus, Lord God from all eternity, Whom love of us brought down to shame, I plead Thy life with Thee, I plead Thy death, I plead Thy name. Jesus, Lord God of every living soul, Thy love exceeds its uttered fame, Thy will can make us whole, I plead Thyself. I plead Thy name.…