Powerful prayer!  The confession of ignorance!  Ah, friends, I am often afraid for myself as a minister that I pray too easily.  I have been praying for these forty or fifty years and it becomes, as far as man is concerned, an easy thing to pray.  We all have been taught to pray, and when we are called upon we can pray, but it gets far too easy, and I am afraid we think we are praying often when there is little real prayer.  Now if we are to have the praying of the Holy Ghost in us one thing is needed; we must begin by feeling, “I can not pray.”  When a man breaks down and can not pray, and there is a fire burning in his heart, and a burden resting upon him, there is something drawing him to God.  “I know not what to pray,”—­oh, blessed ignorance!  We are not ignorant enough.  Abraham went out not knowing whither he went; in that was an element of ignorance and also an element of faith.  Jesus said to His disciples when they came with their prayer for the throne, “You know not what you ask.”  Paul says, “No man knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God.”  You say, “If I am not to pray the old prayers I learned from my mother or from my professor in college or from my experience yesterday and the day before, what am I to pray?” I answer, pray new prayers, rise higher into the riches of God.  You must begin to feel your ignorance.  You know what we think of a student who goes to college fancying he knows everything.  He will not learn much.  Sir Isaac Newton said, “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”  When I see a man who can not pray glibly and smoothly and readily, I say that is a mark of the Holy Spirit.  When he begins in his prayers to say, “Oh, God, I want more, I want to be led deeper in.  I have prayed for the heathen, but I want to feel the burden of the heathen in a new way,” it is an indication of the presence of the Holy Spirit.  I tell you, beloved, if you will take time and let God lay the burden of the heathen heavier upon you until you begin to feel, “I have never prayed,” it will be the most blessed thing in your life.  And so with regard to the church:  We want to take up our position as members of the church of Christ in this land; and as belonging to that great body, to say, “Lord God, is there nothing that can be done to bless the church of this land and to revive it and bring it out of its worldliness and out of its feebleness?” We may confer together and conclude faithlessly, “No, we do not know what is to be done; we have no influence and power over all these ministers and their churches.”  But on the other hand, how blessed to come to God and say, “Lord, we know not what to ask.  Thou knowest what to grant.”  The Holy Spirit could pray a hundred fold more in us if we were only