“CALL TO PRAYER.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 428, 6 August 1915, Page 6

“CALL TO PRAYER.”

Tin Life and Work t ommittee of the Presbvterian Church hav< issued th.- following call to prayer, which will be celebrated in all t ie churches on Sunday next :

The day ot victory ami peace will only come, through the prevailing of higher than merely material forces. Only as we carry into the new day the vision of the eternal that prayer ensures tor men shall we worthily receive its blessings ami discharge its duties. Prayer blings into our reckoning th<‘ abiding spiritual factors whereon depend ail that is wortay to endure: wherefore let the whole Church ot the Living Go<l cultivate the practice of quiet. <- nfidenl. persevering prayir. knowing- that “the. same Lord over all men is rich utdo all that call upon Him." In quietness ami confidence, said the prophet of <dd. would Israel find strength: in (oiietnes;; and confidence lies the strength of oui nation to-day. More thing- ar*' wiought by prayer 'Dian tin- world dream.-, of. vv nereiore I*. t thy *oice Ri-e like a lountain for in*' night and

day. For wnat are men belter than sheep oi

goats That nourish a blind life witiiin th*

fniiiti. J* , know iiig I*o'4. they li:*.' not hands ot

prayer Both ior tiiemse'ves and those that, call them friend : For so the whole round earth is every

way Bound 8v gold chains about the leet ot God.’

“(>m thing have I desired of the Lord, tiiat will I seek after; tbit 1 may dwell in the house of th*' Lord all Die days <jf my life, to behold th*- beaut.’, of the Lord, anil to inquite in His tempi". “Though an host should emanip against me my }*«•;> . 1 shall n<>t fear ; though war should ris*. against m*-, * V I'll then w ill I be confident. “Wait <*n the L*>rd ; be < f good murage ami ll*' shall stre'hgtbeii t nine he;u t : wait. I sav, on the Lotd.’