THE PRAYERS OF THE NATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 162, 28 March 1918, Page 6

THE PRAYERS OF THE NATION

Sir,— Everywhere throughout the, country we have been giving both time and money to help our niea who. are lighting for us. A great crisis is. now at hand, two huge armies. areopposing one another in wbat may be the determining battle, and are we going lo look helplessly on whi'e we have so great a power in our hands which hitherto we have not used as we should? Now is the time as never before when we need to call upon Ood Almighty for his help.' Each year wo have thought victory almost -within I our grasp, but always some totally unforeseen obstacle has arisen to retard and hinder. And why? Because wo have not yet learned one lesson ot humble dependence on, and submission to our Heavenly Father, but have trusted to out own efforts, which haveproved so futile an undertaking without His help and blessing May I suggest? The churches aic always open, and there are few who could not spare five minutes once, twico and even thrice daily, to enter and; kneel in prayor. for those who are m tho thick of the fight, and for vie pry for the rieht. Some may Bay:. 1 have rever prayed, and do not know how. To such I would si* i "You can knceL and lift heart ai.d hands to Heaven, nnd is there one man, woman, or child , in this Dominion who would refuse to do so simple an action, even on the chance of its being effectual? It would be grand to see in our town a constant stream of people coming and going, keeping up one continuous prayei" for onr splendid men who aio facing such awful horrors : that we may be spared them. . . My heart is full of longing to help, end I nm, sure others arc feeling .tho same. Let us then help in the one way open to us, and that so great and wonderful .1 way, and our God twu