"Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options."

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We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

— Henry Ward Beecher