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PRAYING FOR VICTORY

OVER THE POWER OF EVIL THINGS. What is it that moves us to such intensity today, the national day of prayer? Is it merely the safety of our own realm? asks Dr. Sidney M. Berry, writing in the “Sunday Times.” We should be a poor breed if that did not move us deeply. But there is something which lies deeper still. We know in our hearts without any question that if the cause to which we are committed should be lost the world would be given over to the power of evil things, that the souls of men as well as their bodies would be enslaved, and that everything which we associate with the purpose of God would go down for the moment in defeat. Then the consequence is clear. If we do believe that, we not only may pray for victory, we must pray for victory. There is no room for half-heartedness in service today, and there is no more room for half-heartedness in prayer. But to ask God’s blessing now involves a lasting dedication of life to His purposes. In the war of right and wrong “there is no discharge.” Let there then be no thought today of peril driving us to prayers of panic, or a fond belief that in some magic way our prayers will prove to be a “secret weapon. Our strength lies in the cause we serve, the devotion with which we serve it, and the simple faith that God will use dedicated lives to bring the right to victory.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411124.2.8

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1941, Page 3

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PRAYING FOR VICTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1941, Page 3

PRAYING FOR VICTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1941, Page 3

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