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Christian, although all creeds are admitted. Each child is brought to Jesus Christ and taught to accept him as his Savior just as early as it is possible for the young mind to grasp the truth."

This is an American example of the efficiency of prayer, so explicit, so convincing, being accessible for the most thorough and searching investigation. If the agnostics and infidels are honest, as they claim to be, let them institute investigation to their own satisfaction.

This is one example of many, but as it has been brought to public notice, it is for the purpose of arousing an interest in prayer and to convince America that something besides soldiers and guns is needed for victory.

Now let this Prayer Farm and this Prayer Master speak encouraging words to mothers and fathers and devoted wives of soldiers, and to our soldier boys in the trenches, that we are all down on our knees praying for victory, easy victory, prompt victory, a democratic-world-embracing victory.

While we Americans have this PRAYER FARM and this PRAYER MASTER as living, incontrovertible evidence of the efficacy of prayer in faith and in the right state or condition of mind and heart and life of the petitioner, our English cousins have a similar one with even greater accomplishments through prayers by faith. It is

George Muller of Bristol, England,

WHO WORKED WONDERS by faith. In 1834, March 5th, this servant of GOD started an orphanage without asking a single cent from anybody.

"If GOD in His goodness and mercy wishes me to establish a home for the homeless, a home ruled by love, a home where the lost mother's love may in some measure be supplemented, a home where a motherly embrace and kiss would cheer the neglected or forlorn waif-if it pleases GOD to allow and bless such a home, THEN HE WILL FURNISH THE MEANS to do it. But, again, if such an undertaking is not in accordance with His will, THEN THE MEANS WILL NOT BE FORTHCOMING."

Thus reasoned George Muller. Money began to pour in, until in the last report the amount, during forty years' operation, has reached THREE AND ONE-HALF MILLION DOLLARS ($3,500,000).

What has been accomplished with such a large sum of money? Sixty thousand children and adults have been educated in different schools that are maintained by orphanage resources. More than one hundred thirteen thousand Bibles, two hundred ninetyeight thousand copies of the New Testament and one hundred ninety-eight thousand smaller parts of the Holy Scriptures in various languages have been distributed since the beginning of the institution, and more than sixty million tracts and books, also in various languages.

Furthermore, missionary work among the heathens has been

undertaken during later years, and a company numbering one hundred seventy-five has been equipped and maintained out of the orphanage funds. During the above period five thousand one hundred ninety-nine orphans, fatherless and motherless, have found a home and parental care in this institution, and five large buildings have been erected at a cost of five hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

Now remember: All this has been accomplished without asking a penny from anybody, without publishing the grand work of the institution, coupled with or introductory to the appeal to the sympathy and benevolence of good people-no; nothing of the kind.

But it has been presented in humble supplication and petition in the secret chamber, that holy of holies, where God's trusting servants meet with GOD and his angels.

I am very much surprised to notice that England, the home and the sphere for the activities of such faithful wonder-workers as Wycliffe, Roland, Hill, Baxter, Farrar, Spurgeon, Myers and George Muller, and that great and godly statesman, William E. Gladstone, is overlooking or ignoring the LORD GOD of heaven in all its addresses and appeals. This war will not be won BY ANY SACRIFICE to attain selfish aims, ignoring the LORD of lords and the KING of kings, the CREATOR AND RULER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Timely Warning to the Entente Allies.

This war will continue, the streams from bloodshed will be swelled, sufferings will be intensified, destruction of property, architecture and art will be increased, the burden posterity has to ATONE for, to amend, and to repair, the iniquities of its ancestors, will be augmented until the ENTENTE ALLIES are brought down upon their knees in humiliation and supplication before their GOD, acknowledging that they have neither wisdom for planning and conducting nor power nor skill for successful execution without Divine guidance.

However much this statement appears and feels contradictory to modern rationalistic conception and practice, it is the condition nevertheless. And the longer the rationalistic views and attitudes are persisted in, the greater will be the sacrifices, the suffering and the destruction.

If the Entente Allies had placed explicit faith in GOD and His Holy Word, and had they diligently consulted the Bible and history, they would have adopted the attitude of Hezekiah as presented in Chapter XXV, in which case the Kaiser would have gone into captivity in company with the Czar of Russia long ago, and the world would now enjoy a universal democratic peace.

But a WORLD DEMOCRACY, based on universal suffrage and self-determination or GOVERNMENT BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, was not intended from the beginning of the war, nor earnestly advocated until UNCLE SAM took a hand in

it and started on his celebrated lecture course, which has, happily, radically changed the attitude among the belligerents and contending parties in every country in the world.

George Washington on His Knees; a Hallowed Spot.

"At no period of the war," wrote Chief Justice Marshall, “had the American army been reduced to a situation of greater peril than during the winter at Valley Forge. More than once they were absolutely without food. There was seldom at any time a quantity of provisions sufficient for a week. The returns of the first of February exhibited the astonishing number of 3,989 men in camp unfit for duty for want of clothes. Of this number scarcely a man had a pair of shoes. Although the total of the army exceeded 17,000 men, the effective rank and file amounted to 5,912. Their clothes were in tatters. The Quaker Isaac Potts tells us of Washington's prayer at Valley Forge, how, as he traversed the forest, he heard a fervent voice. Approaching nearer, whom should he behold, in a kind of bower, but the commander in chief on his knees praying to the Ruler of the Universe. At the moment when Friend Potts, concealed by the trees, came up, Washington was interceding for his beloved country. When he reached home his wife asked the reason for his agitation.

"I have this day seen,' replied he, 'what I shall never forget. If George Washington be not a man of God, I am mistaken, and still more shall I be disappointed if God, through him, does not perform some great thing for the country.'"

Distribution of Bibles, and Prayer.

Soldiers at the front will not refuse the Bible offered them, declares the New York Times. "Men who never read it before will read it now, and when they return home they will keep and treasure it as a souvenir of the great ordeal." Speaking unprofessionally, the writer here continues:

"One does not have to be a religious man to know this. Some will get strength from it on the eve of battle, for there is a discipline of the soul; others in the beauty of its narratives will find an enduring appeal. If acquaintance with the Bible makes better soldiers of men who were scoffers, the American Army will be all the more formidable. The religious captains have been the stoutest, often the most victorious. They are the inspiring figures in the history of warfare. Not infrequently American commanders have been churchmen who believed in the power of prayer. To go no further back than the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson, as hardhitting a soldier as it knew, held services before going into battleif he had time for them. Grant was by no means indifferent to religion. Lee was devout, and Oliver Otis Howard, a sturdy fighter, knew the Bible almost by heart. In the war with Spain Guy Vernor Henry was a praying soldier."

How to Pray in War-Time.

(From the Watchman-Examiner, New York)

"There must be much of confession in our prayer in these wardays, for humiliation is a part of prayer. All the warring nations, our own included, have many sins upon which the judgment of God must rest. Let us not, as a nation, be pharisaical in spirit. Let us confess our own sins and not the sins of others. When we go to God in prayer let us remember our personal sins, which are many and grievous; and our domestic and social sins, which in many quarters threaten the sanctity of the home. Let us remember also our commercial sins, our political sins, and our national sins. Many of our great fortunes have been built up upon injustice and tyranny. Many of our political leaders have sought the halls of legislation with a view to the hauls of spoilation, and throughout the nation there is a mighty battle being waged between Jehovah, the true God, and Moloch, Mammon, Baal, and Bacchus. Let us confess and forsake our sins, for we are far from a perfect people.

"In our war-time prayers there must be much of petition and even of importunity. We must pray definitely and earnestly that God will give speedy victory to our Army and Navy. If we dia not believe that we were fighting for a righteous cause we would not be fighting at all. If we are at all justified in being at war, we have a perfect right to pray God's blessing upon those who are fighting our battles on land and sea. Let us pray that the soldiers and sailors of all the nations shall be prepared to meet their God when death shall come to them, for beyond all doubt many of them will be hurried into eternity. Let us pray for the homes and hearts made desolate by the terrors of this war. Let us pray for the German nation, because the Book that we love and the principles of which we try to follow teach us that we are 'to love our enemies' and that we are 'to pray for them that despitefully use us.' Let us pray that Christian faith shall not fail and Christian hope shall not grow dim. There are mysteries about this war that no man can solve, but God is still on His throne, and God still reigns.

"Let us pray that our Christian activities at home and abroad shall be increased rather than decreased. There are a hundred new and incessant calls ringing in our ears today. In the purchase of Government securities and in the payment of increased taxes, the Government must be supported. The Red Cross, which will care for the sick and the wounded, must be liberally supplied with funds; the Young Men's Christian Association and other agencies, which will seek to safeguard the morals of soldiers and sailors, must be generously upheld. In spite of all this, the need has never been so great and never so urgent that our distinctive Christian work at home and abroad should go forward with larger enthusiasm and greater undertakings. Let us pray that God will put into the hearts of his children to support as never before the mani

fold activities which are looking to the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth.

"In these war-days there must be much of submission in our prayers. Recall that terrible night in Gethsemane when Jesus said: 'O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.' There are many bitter cups that are being drunk the world around today. It is not pessimism nor foolish foreboding to say that these cups are being mixed this hour for our American people. There are multitudes of us who would rather die than send our sons to die on the bloody fields of France and Belgium. On the other hand, we should never forget that we live in America in peace and plenty today, because brave men in the long ago won our freedom by the sacrifice of their lives. Every stone in the monument of our national greatness was quarried and hewn and polished by the devotion and sacrifice of our fathers. Let us pray that God will give us the courage during these coming days to drink the cup which may be preparing for us."

These are true Christian sentiments clearly and nobly expressed. And may it be understood and effectively impressed upon the nation. as a whole that the sacrifice of boys and various resources will be measured by our own attitude and relationship to God, and our conformity to His will as expressed in the Bible. For it is God's purpose at this time and in this way to bring the nation to submission. The longer and harder we persist in thinking and doing our own way without regard for God and His will, the greater will be our sacrifice in boys and the longer will last our struggle. Remember: We cannot successfully fight God and the Kaiser at the same time. “He that is not with me is against me," said Jesus Christ.

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