LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PRAYER AND THE WAR
gj rj _Your correspondent "Common Sense" is unfortunate in the false antithesis he has raised between effort and prayer. The real alternative that confronts us is prayerful or prayerless effort. In inviting his people to observe a solemn day of prayer on January 6, His Majesty has but voiced anew a thought expressed already by such practical and modern men as Lord Roberts and Admiral Beatty, and it is sorry work to eneer at well-meaning: attempts to respond heartily to his summons. It hardly strengthens the argument lo pvay in aid the authority of Napoleon, whose mantle has now fallen upon the Kaiser. What title have such superbrigands to read the will of God? There is only one thing worse than defeat that could conceivably befall us, and that is an unsanotified victory, such as niany's big guns secured in 1871. What substitute for prayer can avail against this very real dangerf-I November 18. 1917.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 48, 20 November 1917, Page 6
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