SEASONABLE WEATHER
Sin,—May a very ordinary " parson " venture some kind of brief answer to " Janus' " doubts about the advisability of prayers for the weather? I will not refer him—he probably knows it—to the New Testament Apostle James' apparent commendation of Elijah's O.T. prayers for drought and again for rain. But on the whole question in its wider aspect, may I say a word? I remener a friend and fellow-worker of the famous cricketer and . missionary C. T. Studd once telling me that that great man used to say that he believed God had entrusted to Satan, before his fall from grace, control of the weather, and that it still was largely in his power. Be that as it may, I venture to believe that prayer, especially united prayer, is the discharge of a kind of spiritual electricity which can and does produce changes in the material sphere, and that thereby God has allowed to man power to modify even the weather. Just as He allows man to use, not use, or even misuse material electricity. There is, I believe, here a vast region awaiting exploration; and the great discoveries of the future —to mention another one, the power of mind and spirit in " Faith- Healing "—will be in it rather than in the realm of material science.—
I am, Sir, &c., J. H. WARNER. Rector of Kirkby Knowle, Thirsk.
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