Prayers for Rain.
The recent day of humiliation in New South Wales in connection with the drought and the prayers for rain which were offered up in many of the churches in the Colony, have led to a great amount of newspaper correspondence, m the course of which the efficacy of such proceedings was keenly argued. One gentleman sends a Sydney paper the .following list of " occasions in the past, when public prayer has been offered for rain, and the answers to the same," leaving it to speak its own message " :— Prayer offered for ram Bain came on October 19,1882 October 21,82 • February 27, 1884 March 10, '84 June 1, 1685 June 10, '85 June 24, 1888 July 1. 1888 To this may be added the recent occasion, when prayers on Sunday, September 15th, were followed by rains on the Monday, reports in the papers of the 17th showing that no less than sixty four telegraph stations in different parts of the Colony rain fell in appreciable quantities. In some cases the fall was very heavy and the water-courses which had been dry, or all but dry, for weeks overflowed their banks.—Chronicle.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 89, 11 October 1895, Page 3
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