“DEVOTIONAL PERIOD”

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 7, 1 August 1948, Page 3

“DEVOTIONAL PERIOD”

Hymn 115: “How firm a Foundation. ye saints of the Lord.” Scripture: 1 Thessalonians Ch. 3, verses 1-7. A Lesson on Prayer “There was in a city a judge. . . . There was a widow. ’ Luke 18, 2:3. Our Saviour used common circumstances to tcacli uncommon lessons. A harsh judge and a needy widow furnish the characters for a lesson on prayer. How many times we have missed the blessing because we have given a feeble knock at the door of Mercy and then, mischievous children, have run away. Ihe Lord teaches us a lesson in Faith, for He tells us not only to knock, but to keep on knocking. Affliction* 1 Tliess. 3:3, “The storm of affliction may become a very hurricane, but it can never blow bard enough to move the ‘soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose.' "While God may not send directly every one of our afflictions, yet He has appointed us to meet them. And the realisation of the fact that not a single affliction is foreign to llis loving interest or beyond His loving care stabilises our wavering Mauls like nothing else” —“The Presbyterian.’' NOONTIDE PRAYER Our Heavenly Father, we ask Thee to help and encourage the officers and members of the VV.C.T.U. and every organisation throughout the world which seeks to build up Thy work. May the members be inspired to come forward to organise Youth Movements. So many of us have been bent upon selfish ends that we could not stop to think and work for the Young People of our lands. Oh. Lord, give us a vision of Thee and Help us to have the courage to take up this work We pray Thee to fit us for it. —Amen.