A leader in a local paper ten day: or so ago said—"it will not be too much to expect British people to pause on this Day of Prayer"—or it may have been "to gather together" on this day or some such words. "Not too much to expect"—our days are full of the reading of our airmen hurtling to death on our behalf, of our sailors in their submarines and other sinking ships going to their deaths for us, of our soldiers but a few weeks ago hacking a glorious path to that wonderful evacuation that those who have not already died for us may still stand on the alert ready at any moment to die that we may live—that is the background against which we hear "it is not too much to expect" that today we will unite in prayer for them, for ourselves and the cause for which God has made our commonwealth of nations His sole effective champions. What a light it casts on cur neglected opportunities, our careless ways our almost pagan disregard of the means of grace—"we may perhaps be expected" once to spare a few hours to meet for prayer! Our Lord would teach us always to pray—to snatch an imperceptible moment like Nehemiah standing before the king, to go like Daniel "as before" three times a day to his regular place at the window of his chamber despite the threat of death, as our Lord Himself who always prayed right up to His death on the Cross—
When Will We Pra; The Archbishop of Canterbury suggests a noonday prayer and to that for some months the Dean has invited you here day by day at 12.10; the, Archbishop says "especially on the Lord's Day" when we regularly meet and in all our services offer prayers in connection with the war and all its varied circumstances and sufferings. Is it too much to expect that every member of the Christian Church every Lord's Day will "not forsake the assembling of ourselves together" but with his fellows gather together to offer prayer? At all times and in all places—there—then we should pray.
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