21. This is the poetic interpretation of a roar. To whom do the lions roar?
Certainly not to their prey, for the terrible sound tends to alarm their
victims, and drive them away. They after their own fashion express their
desires for food, and the expression of desire is a kind of prayer. Out of this
fact comes the devout thought of the wild beast’s appealing to its Maker for
food. But neither with lions nor men will the seeking of prayer suffice; there
must be practical seeking too, and the lions are well aware of it. What they
have in their own language asked for they go forth to seek, being in this thing
far wiser than many people who offer formal prayers not half so earnest as those
of the young lions, and then neglect the means in the use of which the object
of their petitions might be gained. The lions roar and seek; too many are liars
before God, and roar but never seek.
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