Ten Questions on Prayer

by Gerald Heard

Overview

These ten questions really cover, with a great sense of development between one question and another, the whole problem of prayer. Of course, prayer is a problem. If we all obtained exactly what we asked, I suppose it wouldn�t be. But prayer is an education.

That vast and vital theme Gerald Heard returns to in this pamphlet. Much of the material was presented in the Spring Retreat at Pendle Hill. This text has been prepared from extemporaneous answers which he gave subsequently in New York to a series of questions put to him by fellow laymen. What he said was transcribed and appears with but slight editing.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149933747
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	12/11/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #58
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	88 KB

About the Author

In 1936 William Sheldon, the psychologist, told me that we at Harpers should be publishing for a brilliant writer and lecturer he had recently met in England. The man�s name, he said, was Gerald Heard. Up to that time Gerald Heard had been writing scientific and sociological books but he was now turning to religious subjects. A note was made of the name. Some time later, when I was making a valiant effort to work through an accumulation of mail, that note reappeared�one more letter to dictate. The response came promptly. Gerald Heard was coming to America and would look me up.
The hour he later spent at my desk was one of the most intellectually stimulating that I have ever known and led to a publishing relationship which he, poor man, cannot escape from even in a Pendle Hill Pamphlet. But no, he does escape through writing a mystery novel now and then or a volume of essays or a book on flying saucers. I should not be surprised if tomorrow a book of poetry were announced, so facile and informed the mind, so competent the hand that writes. If so, the leading poem would likely be on the theme so close to his heart�how to make the ways of God known to man.
That vast and vital theme Gerald Heard returns to in this pamphlet. Much of the material was presented in the Spring Retreat at Pendle Hill. This text has been prepared from extemporaneous answers which he gave subsequently in New York to a series of questions put to him by fellow laymen. What he said was transcribed and appears with but slight editing.
Eugene Exman