Show special prayers oct ath sunday oct ath is the day set apart by president wilson as the day for all americans to praytor pray for peace this will be go to church sunday on this day our president asks we all enter into that spirit of communion with gd go d which lifts man up to a higher harmony Bar mony and that in in this desired state of mind mina we petition the most high the creator of all things to turn the minds of the war ridden nations of Europe towards a 4 universal peace an in this utilitarian age especially in america ware rewe we are all so imbued with the practical tactical and material phases 6 life this request of the head of the greatest nation on earth may come as a shock to the rationalist to the scientists and to all who have drifted away from the old time faiths but there is much reason in prayer in the eions of man to the incomprehensible creator the unseen un read and unknown forces of the universe are far greater than the little field we have developed and which we think we have mastered and understand philosophy tells us that a self existent being stands back of all things and science cannot refute the conclusion cl prayer of prayer wherein az a hundred million people are asked by their nations leader to td join him in praying that the bavage savage slaughter h of men shall end should cause the to think deeper and should compel the frivolous fri volus to halt while man lifts up his head and asks his godio chit change lige the hearts of men the harmonies of the cosmos may be increased and the iri intensity of the stellar music may be made more real the spiritual in man is the real man not the body faith earnest desire pure aspirations and prayer brayer are ari potent forces only when they are misguided and organized for improper purposes are they otherwise on this we in the land of i i io i j the free and the home of t ti brave shall atlease at least prove tf fo 0 br ethern across alig th e the atlan atlak v that we practice what we pre hresc we shall show them that al albl t t the younger and perhaps I 1 balci ack in culture we w e have dreamed ni 1 greater god aur fore fath broke away from the europe europ C night to establish anew a new woi 7 0 under broader conceptions conceptio ns ii right and wrong true to f trust and still believing tl 2 n brotherly love shall triumphs tn i set apart this day and shall tl th n pray to him that war shall eel ces cf that the sword and the cam shalliot shall not prevail among civil civilia 71 men |