A PRAYER DAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 46, 17 November 1917, Page 8

A PRAYER DAY

Sir—As the gargantuan scroll of war unrolls 'there is revealed almost daily some incident Or some event of even Braver presAge and imnort than any that have gone before. It_ is not enough that the various democratic parties in red Russia should rend each other in the streets of her capital; Ufcl Home kind of disaffection among her own armies should have contributed to the staggering blow which has so suddenly been dealt to Italy by her foes; that new Ministries should be formed in France only to dissolvo again in a few days; the evident 6igns of 6ome eort of serious disagreement among our own leaders now flare into publicity. I am not attempting to criticise Mr. Lloyd Georgo'a speech in. Paris or Mr. Asquith's denunciation of it; only to point out that as events are moving no man is strong enough, no policy vrisn enough, no combination or alliance of earthly nations is powerful enough to "be trusted as tho rallying point of our hopes and expectations of viotory. Under the present sinister trend of events the words of the King, that the most difficult phase of the war is 'yet before us, convey a grave meaning, indeed.. It Is, for this reason he wishes his people to' observe a day of prayer, on which the sun shall not set, and tlins profess our faith m the King of Kings. Unless her Christianity can rally her, the British race may split, as tho Russian race has split, and as other races are splitting asunder. The war is assuming more and ,niore the features of a strugglo not so much of nation against nation, as of a civil strife among the communities composing nations. Shall we not with one voice and oub accord pray God for unity as well as victory, for present peace at home as well as ultimate pence abroad?— I am, etc., MANGATAINOKA. November 15. 1917.