Excerpt from May's Advice to Children, or the Good Child's Petition We never can be said to pray, From what our lips are saying; But when our lips and hearts unite, Then God beholds us praying. There are many children who repeat what is called The flpostle' Creed, and call that a prayer; but this creed is not a prayer. Ivhen you are repeating this creed, vou are only telling God what you believe, while at the same time many do not under stunt] what they repeat. - Some add to this creed the Lord's Prayer, or Our Father which art in Heaven. This is, indeed, an excellent prayer. This is the prayer which J esns Christ taught his disciples, when they' 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.