Excerpt from The Ark in the House; Or a Series of Family Prayers for a Month: With Prayers for Special Occasions It is a very different thing personally to lead the family in prayer - the especial family, in which your own best affections are bound up, whose every need you almost instinctively know, and for whom you plead, as if carrying your own burden, and enumerating your own wants. Then indeed out of the abundance Of the heart the mouth speaketh; and, without alluding to higher aid sought and vouchsafed, the supply is generally found adequate to the emergency of the moment. 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.