PRAYING FOR RAIN.
The recent day of humiliation in New South Wales in connection with the drought and the prayers for for rain which were offered up in many of the churches in the Colony, have led to a great amount of newspaper correspondence, iu the course of which the efficacy of such proceedings was keenly argued, remarks a contemporary. One gentleman sends a Sydney paper the following list of " occasions in the past, when public prayer has been offered for rain, and' tho answers to the same," leaving it to speak it own message " : l'raycr Olfercil lor Haiti. IWn Came On. Oitolicr 10t!i, 1882. October 21st, 1881 February 27th, 1831. Man* 10th, 1831. Juno 7th, 18.35. June 101b, 1885. Juno 24th, 1888. July Ist, 1888. To this may be added the recent occasion, when prayers on Sunday, September 15th, were followed by j rains on the Monday, reports in tho 'papers of the 17th, showing that at [no less than sixty-four telßgr&Jfh stations ill different parts of the Colony vain fell in appreciable qnan(,itjes. In some oases the fall was very heavy, and the v/ater-courses which bad been dry, or all but dry jor weeks, overflowed their banks,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5151, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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199PRAYING FOR RAIN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5151, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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