A CALL TO PRAYER.

White Ribbon, Volume 37, Issue 435, 18 October 1931, Page 9

A CALL TO PRAYER.

November. — “Prayer Changes Things.” Heading—Exodus 35:20-29. “All things are possible to him that believeth,” and faith is always possible in the execution of the revealed Will of God. It is not God’s will that any should perish, so we are surely asking “in accordance with His Will” when we pray for the extension of His Kingdom. “If to grace there ia no limit, Why should I be slow to plead? If God’s power is not restricted. Why not speak my every need? All the treasures of His throne Faith can make them all Its own.” F. W. Boreham, in his liook, “Mountains in the Mist,” in the charter on “The Passing of the Impossible, ’’ writes as follows: — “Is the immediate conquest of the world possible? The question is ridiculous. The world contains millions of Christians. Millions ought to he able to evangelise the entire universe Fifty men of the stamp of Paul and Xavier and Wesley would make Christ known

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to ever> li\inu soul oil the face of the earth in twenty years. That is our shame. !f I could call spirits from the vasty deep, and if they would come when I did call for them, 1 would undertake to summon to the task a hundred heroes who would make the whole world ring with the praise of Christ, while we were still droning over our minute-books. It is the indisputable possibility of the task that makes our tragic failure so shockingly humiliating. If you are quite sure of God. there is no crack or crevice among all His worlds that can harbour an impossibility. Xo man yet i»orn has a faith roomy enough to permit of his believing In God and in the impossible at one and the same time. All things are possible to him that believeth.”