A CALL OF PRAYER FOR THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1915, Page 2

A CALL OF PRAYER FOR THE WAR.

To the Editor. The following letter lias already appeared in the Wanganui Herald and Wanganui Chronicle, and is here reprinted by request. Sir, —Tile spiritual forces engaged ill the war, and the urgent need of prayer to combat them, are emphasised by ]>r. Meyer, who writes a public appeal- to the Nonconformist Churches. "I am increasingly convinced," 'lie says, "that Britain and her aJ'lies are fighting not only »gainst flesh and blood, but against the wicked spirits that rule the darkness of this world. Nothing else can account for the extraordinary passion and inhumanity which, like a paroxysm, seems to possess the German nation. Rev. 12, 12 is being literally fulfilled before our eyes—'Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea. for the Devil is come down unto you, iliaving great wrath, for he knoweth that he hatiii but a short time.' Under these circumstances we must resort to the prayer that binds the strong man, of whom our Lord speaks in Matt. IS, 18, not for patriotic reasons alone, but for the sake of suffering humanity and of 'the kingdom.' I would therefore urge that l'tlle groups of believer® shou'd assembly daily or weekly, throughout tile countrv, to engage in this definite conflict, praying with all prayer and supplication that God would turn all these evil devices to foolishness and overthrow the power of Satan. Let us plead our Lord's eternal victory and uowcr." Dr. Fitchett, editor of the Cross, asks, and I commend his question' to the consideration of your readers: "Why cannot the heads of at least the Protestant Churches in Australia organise a common League of Prayer, with meetings for prayer in everv town and village? The outside world may well begin to think that Christ's Church has ceased to believe i_ji the efficacy of prayer, when, in time of national peril like tihis, it joins in no united fellowship of prayer."—l am, etc., G.J. 11