WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

White Ribbon, Volume 43, Issue 513, 18 July 1938, Page 4

WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

LET US PRAY. O wondrous power of faithful prayer! What tongue can tell the almighty grace ? God'* hands or bound, or open are, As Mo*es or Elijah prays: Let Moses in the Spirit groan. And God cries out, —Let Me alone! V\ hat is prayer ? (a) Communion with God. (b) Tuning in our consciousness to hear the slightest whisper from the Eternal<c) Linking our weakness by faith on to God, the great power house of the universe, ami receiving light to direct (Kir steps and power to work for God. Cl) Helping God! God needs human hands to do His will. Ever is He reaching out and seeking from us complete surrender that His power can work through us. We need God. but it is a deeply spiritual truth that God needs us. God called the W.C.T.U. into manifestation arcl its splendid aims are in accordance with His will. is the liquor trade in accordance with God’s will? NO! Then let ourselves, our organisation, be used of God to rid us of the curse of the licensed liquor bar. Dare we limit God’s power? Is it impossible that He can end this trade? And in our minds many, even Christian ministers, are limiting God’s power. Said one in a meeting of divines: “You have said this task is hard I say it is impossible.” Said the proposer, “I agree with the last speaker. It is absolutely impossible. But that’s what Christians are for—to do the impossible things/’ LET’S DO IT. Lord, what a change within us one *h«>rt hour Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make' What heavy burdens from our bosom* uke. What parched grounds refresh as with a show f er, We kneel, and all around us seems to lower: We rise, and all, the distance and tinnear,

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Stand* forth in sunny outline brave and clear: W e kneel, how weak ; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should \vc do ourselves this wrong, (Jr other*, that we arc not always strong, That we arc ever overborne with care. That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage arc with Thee ? YOU PRAYED FOR ML. Yew prayed for me. ou did not know my need, Nor that my heart was very sore indeed, Nor that I had a fear I could not quell You sensed that with me all was not quite well And so —you prayed for me. You prayed f<>r me. My path had seemed so black. And yet I knew there was no turning back; Then, in my loneliness, I felt God near And down the long, dark road a light shone dear, Because you prayed for me. You prayed for me. God did Himscil attend — Honoured the intercession of niv friend; And as your prayer, like incense swett, did soar, He did. in love, on me a blessing pom The day you prayed for me.