Alexander Whyte
1837 - 1921

      Alexander Whyte was a Scottish preacher, with a passion for the lost. He was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire and educated at the University of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh.

      He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr RS Candlish at Free St Georges. In 1909 he succeeded Dr Marcus Dods as principal, and professor of New Testament literature, at New College, Edinburgh.

      He will always be remembered for his preaching for no ruler has held his subjects more captive than Alexander Whyte did from his pulpit.

      After suffering a heart attack followed by several minor attacks, Whyte resigned his post and retired to Buckinghamshire. There he devoted the remainder of his life to reading and writing. He died January 6, 1921 in his sleep.

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1.) Believing Prayer
      "But without faith it is impossible to please him..." (Heb. 11:6). "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17). First in His believing study and believing appropriation of the Messianic Scriptures, and then in His life of unceasing and believing prayer, our Lord stands at our head as the author and finisher of faith. A ...read more

2.) Grace Flows Down
      "Ye are not under the law, but under grace" (Rom. 6:14). And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing. Only, grace is love adapting itself to certain special circumstances. As, for instance, love may exist between equals, or ...read more

3.) Lord Teach Us To Pray - PREFACE
      It is not the purpose of this Preface to anticipate the biography of Dr. Whyte, now being prepared by Dr. G. Freeland Barbour, or to provide a considered estimate of the great preacher's work as a whole. But it may be well briefly to explain the appearance of the present volume, and to take it, so far as it goes, as a mirror of the man. The desire ...read more

4.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 1 - THE MAGNIFICENCE OF PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "A royal priesthood."-1 Pet. ii. 9. "I am an apostle," said Paul, "I magnify mine office." And we also have an office. Our office is not the apostolic office, but Paul would be the first to say to us that our office is quite as magnificent as ever his office was. Let us, then, magnify our office. Let us m ...read more

5.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 2 - THE GEOMETRY OF PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity."-Is. lvii. 15. I HAVE had no little difficulty in finding a fit text, and a fit title, for my present discourse. The subject of my present discourse has been running in my mind, and has been occupying and exercising my heart, for many years; or all my life ...read more

6.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 3 - THE HEART OF MAN AND THE HEART OF GOD
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us."-Ps. lxii. 8. EVER since the days of St. Augustine, it has been a proverb that God has made the heart of man for Himself, and that the heart of man finds no true rest till it finds its rest in God. But long befo ...read more

7.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 4 - JACOB-WRESTLING
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Jacob called the name of the place Peniel."-Gen. xxxii. 30. ALL the time that Jacob was in Padan-aram we search in vain for prayer, for praise. or for piety of any kind in Jacob's life. We read of his marriage, and of his great prosperity, till the land could nnno longer hold him. But that is all. It is ...read more

8.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 5 - MOSES-MAKING HASTE
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "And Moses made haste . . ."-Ex. xxxiv. 8. THIS passage is by far the greatest passage in the whole of the Old Testament. This passage is the parent passage, so to speak, of all the greatest passages of the Old Testament. This passage now open before us, the text and the context, taken together, should ne ...read more

9.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 6 - ELIJAH-PASSIONATE IN PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Elias . . . prayed in his prayer."-Jas. v. 17 (Marg.). ELIJAH towers up like a mountain above all the other prophets. There is a solitary grandeur about Elijah that is all his own. There is an unearthliness and a mysteriousness about Elijah that is all his own. There is a volcanic suddenness-a volcanic v ...read more

10.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 7 - JOB-GROPING
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Oh that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat."-Job xxiii. 3. THE Book of Job is a most marvellous composition. Who composed it, when it was composed, or where-nobody knows. Dante has told us that the composition of the Divine Comedy had made him lean for many a year. And the ...read more

11.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 8 - THE PSALMIST - SETTING THE LORD ALWAYS BEFORE HIM
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "I have set the Lord always before me."-Ps. xvi. 8. IF this so devotionally disposed disciple had lived in the days of David, and if he had asked of David what he here asks of his Master,-that is to say, if he had said to David, "David, thou man after God's own heart, teach me to pray,"-David would have a ...read more

12.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 9 - HABAKKUK-ON HIS WATCH-TOWER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower."-Hab. ii. i. HABAKKUK'S tower was not built of stone and lime. Hiram's Tyrian workmen, with all their skill in hewn stone, and in timber, and in iron, and in brass, had no hand in building Habakkuk's tower. "The Name of the Lord" was Habakkuk's high tow ...read more

13.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 10 - OUR LORD-SANCTIFYING HIMSELF
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself ..."-John xvii. xix. "I have an exceedingly complex idea of sanctification," says John Wesley in his Journal. And that must surely be an exceedingly complex sanctification, pursuit, attainment and experience which embraces both our Lord and all His disciples,-both Hi ...read more

14.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 11 - OUR LORD IN THE GARDEN
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder."-Matt. xxvi. 36. Gethsemane can I forget? Or there Thy conflict see, Thine agony and bloody sweat,-And not remember Thee? "THEN cometh Jesus with them unto a place called ...read more

15.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 12 - ONE OF PAUL'S PRAYERS
      "Lord, teach us to pray,"-Luke xi. i. "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father..."-Eph. iii. 14-19. If we do not learn to pray, it will not be for want of instructions and examples. Look at Abraham, taking it upon him to speak unto the Lord for Sodom. Look at Isaac, who goes out to meditate in the field at the eventide. Look at Jacob, a ...read more

16.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 13 - ONE OF PAUL'S THANKSGIVINGS
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "Giving thanks unto the Father . . ."-Col. i. 12, 13. THANKSGIVING is a species of prayer. Thanksgiving is one species of prayer out of many. Prayer, in its whole extent and compass, is a comprehensive and compendious name for all kinds of approach and all kinds of address to God, and for all kinds and al ...read more

17.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 14 - THE MAN WHO KNOCKED AT MIDNIGHT
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. i. "Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight..."-Luke. xi. 5-8. It is night. It is midnight. The night is dark. All the lights are out, and everybody is in bed. "Friend! lend me three loaves! For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him!" ...read more

18.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 15 - PRAYER TO THE MOST HIGH
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "They return, but not to the Most High."-Hos. vii. 16. THE Most High. The High and Lofty One, That inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy. The King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the Only Wise God. The Blessed and Only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in ...read more

19.) Lord Teach Us To Pray 16 - THE COSTLINESS OF PRAYER
      "Lord, teach us to pray."-Luke xi. 1. "And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart."-Jer. xxix. 13. IN his fine book on Benefits, Seneca says that nothing is so costly to us as that is which we purchase by prayer. When we come on that hard-to-be-understood saying of his for the first time, we set it down ...read more