PRAYER.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2556, 2 September 1915, Page 6

PRAYER.

Sir, —If you took a car for Thomson, as you-' imagined, and then -, suddenly ; discovered that you were .speeding to- v . wards Brooklyn, you would not wait until 6 o'clock next morning, as suggested by "Churchman," and then go to church and pray: you woiild ring.the bell (not the church boll) and -'get out as soon ns the car, stopped, and turn your baclc on the. course you were pursuing.' Your'expectation to; reach your : destination would' tlien. be in , a fair way towards realisation.' Of course .it was possible for you to have sunk into: a corner of the Brooklyn car and prayed for deliverance, but until you fulfilled the conditions essential to deliverance •' ;• your prayers ..would bo as futile as the . millions of prayers that have'been offered up with reference to the war. Thero is a natural world and there ; is a spiritual world. God's laws gov-' ern .both, and consequently there is "no .variableness neither shadow cast by turning." Light goes in straight . ; lines and water finds its own level, ,etc.,. J and' tlio Scriptures plainly, teach' that the penalty for national, unrighteousness ;is War, Pestilence, and Famine. : There is only one remedy, and that remedy is not praying, it is righteous- :• ness,: right living. "Righteousness exalteth a nation," and when we. contemplate the abominable things doue on the earth to-day, we marvel at the long suffering of God. "Going to church" at 6 a.m., Ckristi- ■ anity so-called, savours very much of Baai worship, and if tlie person going to church had. been engaged at some questionable work or practice the uight previous his time would be more profitably spent in the garden or cleaning . the windows.—l am, etc., 'I . v .JOHN PLOWJIAN. [Tljis letter., has been condensed.] .