Efficacy of Prayer

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 9

Efficacy of Prayer

Sir—Those of your correspondents who scoff at the idea of national, prayer in the present crisis apparently do not know or realise that the greatest and most advanced . peoples on British aud. their colonies, the Unitttt States included—are the people who « nations make more use of prayer than an Do°not'the House of Commons and the House of Lords open their sessions with prayer? Does not the greatest King in history' frequently call upon the Almighty for blessings? Do not the greatest men of our race attend Westminster Abbey for prayer on occasions when they feel their human efforts require help.” Did not Air. Baldwin open the most Important conference of our race with prayCr Let the scoffers ponder this. They do not seem to realise that the efforts or doctors, scientists, chemists, scholars and inventors are frequently only rewarded after laborious study and thought and then often not in the direction looked for. AVhy, then, should scoffers sneer it prayer is not immediately answered, and thereby belittle our Bible? _ I defy anyone, scoffer or not, to mention any great event of modern times predicted by scientists, modernists or scoffers that is comparable in wonder to the fulfilled Biblical prophecies re the British race, and even we New Zealanders. Perceive, then, that it is the nation that has nationally recognised prayer that has received tbe greatest blessings on this earth. Perhaps the scoffers would prefer to belong to some other nationality. Let them explain why England alone (with few minor exceptions) of all nations has been free from invasion or foreign dominations for the last 800 years. Remember tbe modernists of Ptolemy s time who pooh-poohed tbe idea of tbe older idea in astrofiomy. Jt strikes me there is a resemblance. —I am. etc., FRANK WHITE. Eketahuna, January 16.