"PRAYER AND COMMON SENSE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 47, 19 November 1917, Page 6

"PRAYER AND COMMON SENSE"

Sir,— Viewing the subject from an antiChristian point of view, your correspondent "Common Sense" is perfectly correct. Wo must fight, because the socalled Christian nations reject the founder of Christianity and preach the doctrine other than His "the lord will not hear." He does not ; answer their prayer; 'there if} therefore nothing else for it bub to fight; they are being "slam before their enemies" (Lev. 20, 17) as God has declared. This chapter reveals to us the 6nly conditions upon which God can hear us and "give peace in the land." (Verse 6.) \ If "praying" would accomplish it, surely the war would have ended three vears ago, • when the order went forth to ring the church bells and pray :jt noon. Leviticus 2fi and Deu,l> 28 show the only , road to peace, and our suiTerintra w i'H increase until ire take it. it is possible that, as "Common _ Sense suggests, the. time when "your evives and children are being' brutally llMreated may be much nearer than he imagines. Also, we arc informed that Napoleon said: "God is on the side of big gun*. God's name has been taken in vain too often in connection with tho it behoves us to look up His WoM (Exodus 20) /and see what He has to sar about this and other matters -which need, our attention. In the meantime wc are assured that "forms of S°<" <" Timothy, 3-5) are worse than useless. The war will probably collapse within a week of the national day of prayer, but this will not be brought about by the praTers of any particular nation. When the judgments of God are in the earth the inhabitants f t \ , ' .' vorld G o t r]' learn righteousness-right living. Gols judgments have been won the earth for a considerable time, and the people W barely begun to learn the ABy o righteousness, so it is a long, long.^' 1 road, this poor, torn world has to travel. God is saying to the Comer, ot', and' let us reason together .but tho nations jeply "No thanks! We prefer l °lii g l h prior to the destruction of >r»salem our Saviour "marked: lo* often would I have gathered thy c 11 dren together as a hen ho ' eth ,°j brood under her wings, and j*, wo d not Behold, four house is .left unto -you' desolate."- Ho has long teen 'ing the same thing to us, ™;rre> » ould not," and history repeats itself. 1 m, etc- ' JOHN PLOWMAN.