PRAYER.
Sir,—While I quite agree with "A Trooper's Mother" that we should pray, I think tho counsel of, John Plowman would, if carried out,' prove more'effective. God says /'Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doing from before mina eyes, cease to do evilj learn to do well. If ye refuse and rebel ye shall be dovouretli with the sword." (Isaiah i.) Are not the nations now being devoured by the sword? They have "sown to the wind" and are "reaping tho whirlwind." For hundreds of years Great Britain has permitted tho liquor traffic, the opium traffic, tho white slave traffic, and num.v abominations to exist, while in theso latter days we liavo tho greatest crime of all, race suicide, and the State has added to its iniquity by taking revenue (see Customs tariff) of the "evil inventions" (Rom. 1-30). All the nations engaged in tho war are notorious '.'sweaters," God calls it grinding the face of tho poor (Isaiah 3). Theso are just a few of tho iniquities that have brought about tlio frightful war. God says to the nations that practice such things "When ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you, yea wlion ye make many prayers I will not hear. Thy men shall fall by the sword, thy mighty men'in war,, and in that day seven women shall' take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel, only let us bo callcd by thy uamo to take away our reproach" (Isaiah 3 and 4). This is intended to ehow that when a 'nation forsakes God there is great danger of men becoming vory scarce, namely, 0110 man to seven women.—l am, etc., A MOTHER OF FIVE.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 12
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296PRAYER. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 12
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