Show 0 FOR ONE DAY OF PRAYER Readers of the papers will have noted that movement for one ono day of prayer February has been fixed on as the time when all who rec recognize the possibility po of prayer are in invited invited invited to unite in petitions to the God of all the world The forenoon is to be devoted to prayer for the right guidance of the President of the United States the Congress and all nIl men mon in authority throughout the nation And the after aUer afternoon afternoon noon for a variety of subjects a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more intimately connected with the persons and the fortunes of the people at large larse No man can explain the efficacy of or prayer without departing from the field of material evidence which admits of no disputing But few men of careful word care to deny that prayers are an answered answered answered In the we aro tola told toldA A I not to prefer petitions to that inverted bowl ve we call the sky forIt as asim impotently im impotently potently moves as you or I And yet et the witnesses to answered prayer are are thick as autumn leaves In brosa brasa Whether there is a Supreme Power which listens and deigns direct reply r ply or whether the souls sincere desire unuttered or expressed tends itself to producing its own answer who shall say And who shall measure the bless blessing blessIng blessIng ing that must come from a united turning of the general thought In one direction at the same time tine the strong desire by many human souls for a certain certain certain tain blessing the necessary recognition recognition recognition tion by many of that allegiance to the Creator and humbly bowing before Him Jm No man in the nation can can be he hurt by bythe bythe bythe the day of prayer |