{"id":1105,"date":"2014-06-20T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:57:33","slug":"george-herbert-and-marguerite-estaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"George Herbert and Marguerite Estaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSince then, these three wait on Thy throne,<br \/>\nEase, Power, and Love, I value prayer so,<br \/>\nThat were I to leave but one,<br \/>\nWealth, fame, endowments, virtues,\u2013all should go;<br \/>\nI and dear prayer would together dwell,<br \/>\nAnd quickly gain, for each inch lost, an hell.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2013George Herbert<\/em>. How They Prayed Vol. 2, p. 104.<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69d2cfbc4090f5073803148' value='69d2cfbc4090f5073803148'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69d2cfbc4090f5073803148' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69d2cfbc4090f5073803148' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69d2cfbc4090f5073803148' ><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod\u2019s goodness<br \/>\nCame to me just now on a friend\u2019s prayer.<br \/>\nI clearly knew them both.<br \/>\nStrange!<br \/>\nA [prayer (that priceless gift); given me,<br \/>\nArrives, laden with God.<br \/>\n\u2018Are prayers I wonder,<br \/>\nEmpty dishes we present to God<br \/>\nFor conveyance of His great goodness?<br \/>\nWhy, then, aren\u2019t more prayers given?<br \/>\nWhy are we stingy with a prayer<br \/>\nWhen we need prayer so much ourselves?\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2013Marguerite Estaver<\/em>. (How They Prayed Vol. 2, p. 49. Used by permission as published in the Wesleyan Methodist).<\/p>\n<p>How They Prayed Volume Two is the second in a three volume series which are published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69d2cfbc4090f5073803148' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSince then, these three wait on Thy throne, Ease, Power, and Love, I value prayer so, That were I to leave but one, Wealth, fame, endowments, virtues,\u2013all should go; I and dear prayer would together dwell, And quickly gain, for each inch lost, an hell.\u201d \u2013George Herbert. How They Prayed Vol. 2, p. 104.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,200],"tags":[326,327,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}