TO PRAYER CORRESPONDENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 46, 17 November 1917, Page 8

TO PRAYER CORRESPONDENTS

Sir,—A question to your prayer corrw' pondents, who advocate prayer as a means of bringing this war to an end. A 6 an instance, lot us suppose your wives and children aro l)eine brutally , ill-treated round tlio corner. What would you do? Would you fall on your knees in prayer and really expect the brutality to cease, or. would you make some physical effort to stop it? Supposing the French and the Belgian fathers resorted to prayer when they know their wives and xiiildren were boing butchered? Where would their wives and children land ? Personally, I prefer a well-extend-ed physical effort any time to an effort by prayer. To your correspondents I say they must got down to something practical—antiquated methods willnot do. Remember the words of Napoleon that "God was on the side of the big guns." Let these correspondent do something, ! practical and useful. This would bo' genuiuo help. Let a few of their pound notes purchase food to fill tho stomachs of hungry children, hungry as a result of tho war. Let tho correspondents remember that prayers have never yet filled stomachs, nor stopped wars." After they have done this they can do as much proving as they desire—it won't hurt anybody—l am, etc.. COMMON SENSE.