MILLION SHILLING CAMPAIGN.
August.—Prayer’s Prevailing Condition*. Reading: Luke 18:1-19, "Importunity.” Heb. 10:19-25, ‘‘Steadfastness,” "In Ist chapter of Joshua "courage” is four times spoken of as necessary to his discharge of duty. How often would difficulties he moved out of the way did we hut go forward.” Frances E. Willard was speaking on prayer, when she said: ‘‘Life is very simple ufter all. It is just trust in God and reaching out the helping hand. The l)ody is the engine, the soul the engineer; that breath of God we are wont to call the Spirit furnishes the steam power. There you are! Now open the throttle valve and let her drive.” Prayer Topics: 1. Our local Churches. 2. Our Ministers. 3. Our Forward Movement. 4. Our Y’s. 5. The Coming Poll. "It is always noontide somewhere, And across the aw’ak’ning continents From shore to shore somewhere Our prayers are rising evermore." A PERTINENT QUESTION. Canst thou not watch with Me one hour? In the great hospital of Time, Jesus was keeping watch by the couch of a sick world. In the same ward, with the same patient to take care of, His disciples had fallen asleep. (Matheson.) Christ was watching the nation He loved going to its ruin, going deliberately, rejecting its Messiah, sealing its own doom. Already the Roman eagles
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White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 432, 18 July 1931, Page 3
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