In any study of the principles and procedure of prayer of its activities and enterprises first place must of necessity be given to faith. It is the initial quality in the heart of any man who essays to talk to the Unseen. He must out of sheer helplessness stretch forth hands of faith. He must believe where he cannot prove. In the ultimate issue prayer is simply faith claiming its natural yet marvellous prerogatives - faith taking possession of its illimitable inheritance. True godliness is just as true steady and persevering in the realm of faith as it is in the province of prayer. Moreover: when faith ceases to pray it ceases to live. Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us and nothing is impossible with God.