{"id":823,"date":"2015-12-18T02:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=823"},"modified":"2021-07-14T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:32:07","slug":"the-prayer-of-cyrus-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"“The Prayer of Cyrus Brown”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proper way for a man to pray, s<\/em><\/strong>aid Deacon Lemuel Keys,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The only proper attitude i<\/em><\/strong>s down upon his knees.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No, I should say the way to pray,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>said Reverend Dr. Wise, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is standing straight with outstretched arms, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And rapt and upturned eyes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh no, no, no!\u00a0<\/em>said Elder Snow,\u00a0s<\/em><\/strong>uch posture is too proud. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A man should pray with eyes fast-closed a<\/em><\/strong>nd head contritely bowed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems to me his hands should be a<\/em><\/strong>usterely clasped in front,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With both thumbs pointing to the ground,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>said Reverend Dr. Blunt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year I fell in Hodgin’s well h<\/em><\/strong>ead first,\u00a0<\/em>said Cyril Brown, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With both my heels a stickin\u2019 up, m<\/em><\/strong>y head a pointin\u2019 down;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I done prayed right then and there, b<\/em><\/strong>est prayer I ever said, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The prayin’est prayer I ever prayed, a<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0standin\u2019 on my head.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Sam Walter Foss (1858 – 1911)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The proper way for a man to pray, said Deacon Lemuel Keys,\u00a0 The only proper attitude is down upon his knees. No, I should say the way to pray,\u00a0said Reverend Dr. Wise, Is standing straight with outstretched arms, And rapt and upturned eyes. Oh no, no, no!\u00a0said Elder Snow,\u00a0such posture is too proud. \u00a0 A … Continue reading “The Prayer of Cyrus Brown”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}