The Prayers, which are designed for use both in family worship and in private devotions, are the outpourings of a soul which under a deeply realizing sense of the provisions of the Gospel and of the life of the world to come; and while unequal in literary form, they have striking turns of expression which are derived, sometimes from the inspiration of individuals experience, somtimes from the prayers handed on by oral tradition in the Scottish pulpit. The hymns include paraphrases of narrative and doctrinal passages of scripture, metrical versions of the Decalogue and the Creed, and versified prayers suited to almost every situation of duty, temptation, and trial that emerges in human and in Christian experience. The poetical merit of the composition is not great, and none of the pieces have become popular; but they at least anticipated the need of the Scottish Chruch which has since been met by the compilation of a series of hymnals, and in Kinnel they were in their time a real means of grace, leading many to sing and make melody in their hearts to the Lord.... Keywords: The Power of Prayer: Being a selection of Walker Trust essays, with a study, of the essays as a religious and theological document, Gospel, Creed, Chruch, Christian, Heart, Lord, Kinnel,

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