No Vain Repetition of Words: Family Prayer

Reprinted from When Thou Sittest In Thine House, by Abraham Kuiper, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1929. Used by permission of Eerdmans Publishing Co. We read in Matthew 6:7: "And when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." Does Jesus mean by this that every prayer must be brief, and that a somewhat longer prayer already by itself is judged on account of its length? Certainly not. For...