Understanding prayer in the scriptural sense, I would tell every man to pray, just as I would tell every man to believe. For prayer includes and pre-supposes faith. It assumes that the man knows something of the God he is going to, and that is faith. "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:13). But then the apostle adds, "How shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?" (vs. 14). Does not this last verse go to the very root of the matter before us? It is every man's duty to "call upon the name of the Lord" (Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21); indeed, it is the great sin of the ungodly that they do not do so (Psa. 14:4; Jer. 10: 25). Yet says the apostle, "How shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?