October 26, 2026
The Old Words Are Not Tame
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
Prayer is not an escape hatch from the world. In the older Christian writers, it is usually the opposite: a way of standing still long enough for God to tell the truth about the world and about us.
The old words are not museum pieces. They are tools with worn handles. Pick them up.
Source boundary: this post reflects on Elijah, The Praying Prophet, attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.