Show Special Prayers Oct Sunday Oct is the day set apart by President Wilson Vilson as the day for all Americans to pray for peace This will be beGo beGo beGo Go to church Sunday On this day clay our President asks we ye all enter into that spirit of communion communion communion com com- munion with God which lifts man up to a higher harmony and that in this desired state of mind we petition the Most High the Creator Creator Creator Cre Cre- ator of all things to turn the minds of the war-ridden war nations of Europe towards a universal peace In this utilitarian age especially especially especially in America where we are all so imbued with the practical and material phases phaRes of life this request of the head of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est nation on earth may come as asa asa asa a shock to the rationalist rationalist to to the scientists and to all till who have drifted away from the old time faiths But there is much reason reason reason rea rea- son in prayer in the supplications supplications supplications of man to the incomprehensible sible Creator The unseen unread unread unread un un- un- un read and unk unknown forces of the universe are far greater than the little ittle field we have developed and which we think W we have mastered master master- ed and understand Philosophy tells us that a self Being stands back of all things and science cannot refute the con con- This na national prayer this day clay of prayer wherein a hundred million people are asked by their nations nation's leader to join him hint in praying graying that the savage avage slaughter ter er of men shall end should cause the to think deeper and should compel the frivol us to halt while man lifts up his head and asks his God to change the hearts of men The harmonies of the cosmos may be increased and the intensity of the stellar music may be made more real The spiritual in man is the real man nan not the body Faith earnest desire pure aspirations and prayer nr m are potent forces only when they are misguided and organized for improper purposes pur- pur poses oses al' al are arc they otherwise On this his Sunday we se In the land of the he free and aul the home of the brave rave shall at least prove to our across the the Atlantic that hat we practice what we preach We Ve shall show them that altho the he younger and perhaps lacking in n culture we have dreamed a greater Teater God Our forefathers broke away from the European night light to establish a new world under broader conceptions of right ight and and wrong true to the tho trust rust and still believing that brotherly love shall triumph we set apart this day and shall Rhall then pray to Him that war Wal shall Rhall cease that that the sword and and the cannon shall not prevail among civilized men 0 |