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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 5

Of Prime Ministers Gladstone was the firmest adherent of prayer, and never undertook any greai work without such an appeal, says the Manchester "Guardian. "On most occasions of very sharp pressure of trial," he wrote, •'some word of Scripture has come to me as if borne on. angels' wings.'/ Though less was .heard of it, the religious conviction of Lord Salisbury was equally strong. Wβ have heard recently ofjtfr Asquith's maintenance of the habit of prayer, and there was the famous occasion when Mr Lloyd George's War Cabinet resolved itself into a prayer meeting. Nearly all freat naval and military commanders ave believed- strongly in prajeiy