A CALL TO PRAYER.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 1 October 1931, Page 8

A CALL TO PRAYER.

At the request of the. Bishops of the Province, His Grace the Archbishop has issued the following Call to Prayer, which I commend to the notice of the Clergy and faithful sons and daughters of the Church. It is unnecessary for me to stress further the need for prayer upon these subjects. HERBERT WAIAPU. Brethren, — In view of the present distress m the industrial and economic life of the world to-day and m view of the anxieties and sufferings occasioned thereby, we call upon all faithful people m public and private to fall to prayer on behalf of all who are honestly seeking to find a solution of these difficulties, to discover the best and wisest means of meeting and overcoming them and of restoring hope and confidence to a perplexed world; and inasmuch as the Disarmament Conference to be held m Geneva m February next is fraught with, such tremendous consequences for weal or for woe, we specially call upon you to pray earnestly for the Representatives of the Nations taking part therein that they may be inspired with vision, courage and disinterestedness

and seek only to know and do the Divine will and to establish peace more firmly upon the earth. A. W. NEW ZEALAND. Let us pray for the Parliament of the Dominion and for all who are seeking to find ways and means for meeting and overcoming the present industrial and economic distress. Most gracious God, we humbly beseech Thee as for the people of this Dominion m general so especially for our Parliament and all m positions of responsibility and authority under it, that Thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of Thy Glory, the good of Thy Church, the safety, honour and v/elfare of Thy people; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that hope and confidence, peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion an,d piety may be established among us for this and all generations; and this we humbly beg m the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ, our Most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen. Let us pray for Industrial Peace. 0 God, the Father of all mankind, we beseech Thee to inspire us with such love, truth and equity that- m all dealings one with another we may

shew forth our brotherhood m Thee by exalting service above self, for the: sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us pray for the Members of the Disarmament Conference to be held at Geneva m February next., O God, Who art the lover of justice and peace and Who wiliest that all men should live together m unity, peace and concord, grant to the Representatives of the Nations of the Earth, shortly to ' assemble m the Disarmament Conference, grace to seek and know Thy will and so guide them by Thy Holy Spirit that by word and. deed they may promote Thy Glory and strengthen the bonds of peace and! good will among men, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Or Almighty God, from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed,, kindle we pray Thee m the hearts of all men and m the ideals of all Nations the true love , of peace, and guide with Thy pure and peaceable wiadom those who will take counsel' for the Nations of the Earth m the Disarmament Conference shortly to assemble, that by their endeavours, peace and good will may be morefirmly established m the world and. Thy Kingdom go forward till the Earth is filled with the knowledge of Thy lore, through Jesus Christ our Lord.