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The very structure of what is called the Lord’s Prayer brings out most prominently this idea of the relation to Christ as King, as a first impulse and instinct of a Christian soul. The natural selfishness of the human heart—even if under the impulse of helplessness and dependence it be driven to pray—would surely make the first cry to God a cry for daily bread and deliverance from evil. But Jesus teaches first to pray, “Thy kingdom come.”
Stuart Robinson, Christ’s Kingdom on Earth: A Self-Expanding Missionary Society. A Discourse for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, N.Y., May 6, 1855 (New York: Edward O. Jenkins, 1855), p. 8.
Stuart Robinson, Christ’s Kingdom on Earth: A Self-Expanding Missionary Society. A Discourse for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, N.Y., May 6, 1855 (New York: Edward O. Jenkins, 1855), p. 8.
