PRAYER.

White Ribbon, Volume 42, Issue 493, 18 October 1936, Page 5

PRAYER.

Down in the south-west of England there lived a couple. Times were hard, and one day, when the husband left for work in the Helds, there was no food in the house. His wife told him not to worry. She promised him that she would bring him his lunch as usual. When he had gone, she went to her little prayer cupboard, and prayed. Presently a friend dropped in with a gift of provisions, which he had suddenly thought to bring along. At midday the little believing housewife was seen walking across the fields to time as usual, carrying the promised lunch, her answer to prayer. God often does wonderful things for us. even when we only half believe that lie can do them; but when we really believe, then they become possible at any time. Every conceivable remedy for the woes of the world has been tried and tried all down the centuries wdthout avail, that is. every remedy hut one, and that one has been certainly overlooked, or denied efficiency, for two reasons: the materialistic* outlook of the average man, and the simplicity of (lie remedy itself. The people of the world, the nations, and the individuals in the nations, have regarded Christ’s message, the Sermon on the Mount, and His teaching generalb as an entirely unpractical ami otherworldly code or system, which by no stietch of the imagination could be utilised as a safe and successful guide to daily life and conduct under modern conditions. In other words, Christianity itself has never been tried out as a practical method for guiding the d»*stinies of the race. If a man is poor, ill, or unhappy, the remedy is within himself, not ( inside.