THE CRISIS AND PRAYER
. [To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.]
is safe to assume, I imagine, that your. readers in I5ngland are at least as much concerned over -the question Of Italy and Abyssinia, as we, farther away. As • one reads, the papers here, and those I hat come from home, one -is. filled with deep unease ;" one cannot wish for' the confidence in the League to be further undermined, nor for faith in the sanctity of treaties to be shattered ; on the other hand, none but a madman could contemplate with anything but horror, the p issibility of a world war.
May I 'ask your readers to consider the following suggestion ? There must be, in the length and breadth of England and of those other lands where The Spectator -is read, numbers of Christian people, who believe in the power of prayer ; many of them will be praying for peace. Would it not be possible for all those of us who believe that prayer can be used by the Eternal God to bring order out of disorder ; would it not be possible for us to give five minutes at least daily, possibly during the lunch-hour, to pray definite, specific, corporate prayer, for a spirit of, conciliation, and a will to peace in Italy and Abyssinia ;" for a spirit,of conciliation and generosity and a will to peace in all the nations—among the people and the leaders ; for wisdom . for those in whose hands are our destinies and the destinies of the world ?
Whether the ,, Churches of the Christian nations could unite in a call to daily, corporate prayer, both now, and at other times of difficulty and stress, is a matter for more august persons than myself. But, that those of us who care for the building of the Kingdorn ' of God on earth should unite in proving experientially the power of prayer to bring out of diffibiilty, victory and advance,_ seems a plain duty and responsibility to which we can no longer blind. our hearts.—I am, yours, &c., JEAN PHILIP. Methodist Mission, Trichinopoli, S. India.
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