In The Lord's Prayer Octavius Winslow presents his insight of the spirit of the prayer taking a word or phrase of the prayer and expounding on the meaning and its significance. Octavius Winslow stood out as one of the foremost evangelical preachers of the 19th Century. A Baptist minister and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade. His Christ centered works show devotion and practicality.