THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE to God and the failure to acknowledge it is literally fraudulent. Third, there sorrow for sin.. Fourth, there is ^petition- — asking for things — spifitual and material, for ourselves and others. Mere petition, without the other three elements, is a poor shadow of prayer. With them it is an act of real enrichment to the soul : since it expresses not only a right relation of man to God, but a right relation of our wishes to God’s will: man is sufficiently certain of God’s love to ask for what he wants : sufficiently certain, also, to be assured that God will not grant him what he wants if it would be against his truest interests. Prayer, thus understood in its fourfold subjectmatter, may also be considered with regard to its mode. It must primarily be in the soul : if it is not an act of the knowledge and love of man’s soul, then it is of no value at all. But, thus rooted and grounded in the soul, it will make a twofold use of the body. Firsts the body affects the soul; second, the soul expresses itself through the body. As an example of the body affecting the soul, a crucifix seen by the eye may help to fix the soul in meditation upon Calvary. As an example of the soul expressing itself through the body, a man meditating upon Calvary and so coming to see the horror of his own sinfulness in the light of the love of God, may find relief to the power of his soul’s sorrow by falling on his knees or striking his breast. In a full life of prayer, then, the body will not be excluded. But there is a third thing. Man is not an isolated unit, but a being linked by 109