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Show j DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE ' j a . . : By Ml. JAMliS T. VANOIS The point Is not whether the man who drives a car needs to pray. Ho needs to badly. If there is any machine ma-chine that can test out tho reality of one's religion lo tho 'tcenth power, it is an automobile. It can produce more ways of starting up volcanic explosions ex-plosions in human nature than any contrivance man' lvvs devised. The point is not whother tho man who drives a car is hclp.cd by prayer. Not to make a claim which takes us too deeply into the subject, prayer helps one to maintain self-control, to keep cool to keep a grip on himself. Its reflex Influence on the individual is soothing und steadying. But the point is back of the question ques-tion of both need and help. It has to do with something that lies at the basis of prayer. Prayer is l'UC driving a car. How many oeople who drive a car know anything about Its construc- lion? It is one of the most intricate and complicated machines evor Invented. In-vented. Yet u fifteen-year-old girl hops into the car and in a few days s'he is driving the machine through tho crowded city streets. She does not need to understand how It works to drive a car. Prayer is like driving a car. You do not have to understand to pray. You do not have to know how God answers prayer. Why should ou ex- ! pect to? The complexities of Uid .s j universe aro past finding out. The In- tricaclos of life and law in their reaction reac-tion on each other require the thought of omniscience. If it were required that man master all this before ho I prays, prayer would be impossible. But he is not required to know. Mo is I merely required to trust. j It requires but an act of faith to I climb Into the chariot of tho Almighty I nnd drive off. |