POWER OF PRAYER

Southland Times, Issue 22043, 16 June 1933, Page 6

POWER OF PRAYER

GUIDANCE IN CRITICAL DAYS. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 15. A form of prayer appropriate to the World Economic Conference, now in session, was approved at a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery. Members of the Presbytery expressed the hope that all churches might cq-qperate in an endeavour to provide similar guidance regularly for the prayers of the people. The Rev. J. R. Blanchard said the Public Questions Committee had considered the possibility of securing the co-operation of the Press in giving a place in its columns to_ some brief, simple form of prayer which the people might use as a guide in offering a prayer for Divine guidance in these critical days. The importance of this could not be over-emphasized, for what the world needed most at the present time was not so much greater intellectual ability to solve its problems as a spiritual awakening in which the divisive forces of fear, selfishness, suspicion and prejudice would be swept aside for such an awakening. “We are all in the hands of God and prayer is the method which He had laid down as essential,” Mr Blanchard said. The suggestion met with the unanimous approval of the Presbytery.