in his word the Lord teaches us how to pray. You may find prayers difficult, but learn to pray as Jesus taught, and your difficulties will fade away. His prayer is one of simple words and short sentences.

The little passages humbly used, bring us into the company of Angels; and the words become like opened windows, through which our Father pours out a blessing.

Much speaking is not required, but humility is, and so is innocence. To pray from our hearts as Jesus directs, is to use words that are innocent of self. It is to be as little children in the presence of our Father.

In this little book no comparisons are drawn between differing versions of the prayer, nor are any qualifying statements of the critics noticed. The attempt to tell something of its wonder and beauty is drawn rather from a lifetime's experience of its daily use.

All that is written here is from an ordinary layman's learning of the Lord.