Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-02
WEEK OF PRAYER. 1856:
Address of the Worlds Evangelical Ali
ance, and Daily Topics Assigned.

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Following is the address issued by the
Worlds Evangelical Alliance concerning
the Week of Prayer, commencing to-mor-
row, which will be observed by Protestant
churches throughout the world:
Never was a time perhaps when Gods people
ha more need. with PRAYER and supplicatlon
and THANKSGIVING 10 spread forth their hands
toward heaven. We afeetionately and earnestly
invite you whether singly or collectively, to lift
up your hearts and voices to God during the
Week of Prayer appointed for the ensuing year.
We live in wonderful days. Men go to and fro,
and knowledge increases everywhere. Is il to
be said that while the lightning encompasses
the earth with a belt of wire. and while men
have frequent. and almost instantaneous, COM
municatioIIs with each other in far-off regions
of the globe, Christians make but feeble use of
that more wonderful power of prayer, by which
they communicate with heaven? AT the be
ginning of the suppiication the commandment
came forth " was the response conveyed by the
Angel Gabriel TO Daniels petitions. Not even
need the instrument be set il motion not one
solitary moment of time is necessary. He who
hears prayer has created the desire to pray; the
disposition is from Him; He puts it into our
hearts to summon you into that blessed commrl-
Dication with Himself, which is quicker than
the lightning flash, and slirer than the strongest
cable. We may therefore hum 5ly say, while in
viting YOU to join in our annual Week of Prayer,
- The Lord hath heard US. GOD iswith us"
Hitherto the Divine blessing has rested re-
markably upon the universal Week of PRAYER
Year after year we receive GOD be praised) re-
newed tokens of increasing interest in these
gatherings. The zone of duplication and
| thanksgiving is ever widening SO that II encom-
passes more and more the peoples and the coun-
| tries of the whole earth. Let us pray, pray on.
| Oh, when shall He come? When shah He reign
| amongst US, TO whom the right belongs? When
| shall wars and rumors of wars cease? When
shall vice and sin and misery no longer ravage
| and destroy? When shall the darkness of idol
| airy and superstition be turned into eternal
and united prayers may, in the chain of His
marvellous providence, prepare the way for the
| conversion of the nations. for the more speedy
manifestation of the Kingdom of His dear Son
and ior the creation OF all things anew in Christ.
TOPICS FOR THE WEEK.
Sunday January Sd (Sermonsl-" Occupy till
] come. Luke xix, 13.
Monday praise aud Thanksciying)-F the
| spirit of prayer youchsafed TO us; for all the
bounties OF Providence; for Gods long-suflering
goodness, In that He has not taken away His
Holy Spirit from us on account of our little faith
and many proyocations; for His faithful prom
ises in Christ Jesus; for continuing and multi
plying opportunities of proclaiIning His gospel
OF grace: for the progress of Christian Missions
! among the Jews aud Gentiles, and the free
course given to the Word of the Lord notwith-
standing all the opposition OF infdelty and
Astounding iniquity.-Psa. cxlvii. sam, vi.
l2-l9. Psa. cxvi- l Chron., xxx, l0-l5. Isaiah
Xxi Acts ". 1873. Isaiah liv
Tuesday Humiliation and CSnfes ion)-Na-
tional sins; social sins: personal sins; want of
appreciation of the love of Christ; hardness OF
heart; nufaithiulneSS and slothiulncss in serY-
lee: false shame i'll confessing the name OF
Christ before men. and especially among our
own class and kindred; want of zeal in mission
airy work, both at home and abroad want OF
brOtherly kindness and charity--Isaah viii.
Psa Ii. Rolf: ii. ] Ger iii. Isaiah Xvii. Jer.
i'll, l2-25 l Thess. Y.
Wednesday Home and Foreign Mission)-
For the revival and increase of Il missionary
spirit in the hearts OF all who believe; for home
missions AID evangeliStic efiJrts-that more la
borers. full of the spirit of love and power, may
| be sent FORTH and that greet gathering Of
souls may take place: for native Christians
among the heathen-that they MAJ be kept
steadtast aud Jealous in seeking the salvation
of their eountrymen; for missionaries and
teachers-that great grace and wisdom may be
given to them; for Gods ancient people, Israel
that they may be brought into the faith OF
Christ, and ioT the maintenance of religious
liberty in all lands-kzek. xxEvii Acts X. Sis.
Rom XII. 22-36 Joel H. 2i-3S Acts XVI 1928;
Thess. i. Micah iv. Zech. w.
Thursday (The Church and the Family
That the church OF Christ may be more united
in the bonds of faith and love; that, holding
| fast to the head, it may grow with the increase
| OF God that It may be delivered from false
| apostles and wolves in sleeps clothing that
Christ may be all in all in its teachings; and
| that the grace and power of the Holy Spirit may
| rest more and more on Christian families on
| all instructors and pupils in institutions OF
learning, on SunGay-schools, and on Christian
| Associations of young men and young women.
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%. Col. iii. LII. Prov xiii. 1926 Gal. V.
Acts XXX. 2S-iS. Epistle Jude. Proverbs iv
| Friday Nations and Governments)-Forrule
| and all in authority: for the spread of justice
and peace: for the defeat of all malicious plots
and conspiracies; for the manifestation OF a
! Christian spirit between employers and en-
ployed for the removal of all race and sectional
preudices; for the abolition of traffic in slaves
| opium and intoxicating drinks. and all other
immoral trades and practices; for favorable
| reception of Christian missionaries by heather
| rulers and people: and for the coming of Christ
| in his kingdom.-l Tim. ii. To Psa. XII Tim.
| iii. Thess. ii. Psa. Xxi. Rom. xiii. Is.
| Psa. xxx Matt. xiv. 2s-51.
| Sunday (The Christian Life)-For the increase
of faith. hope and charity; for the deepening of
our spiritual life in Christ and such conformity
| to him as may fit us for being more used for our
| SAVIOR glory; for more love to the Bible; for
| the better Observance of the Lords day and
family worship; for the success of the efforts to
| prevent or cure intemperance; to relieve the
sick, and TO rescue the perishng; for benevolent
| institutions and Christian work of all kinds
Eph. i. i5-23. Matt. vi. Cor. xiii Phil ii. liz
| and ". 1-lS Rom. xii. James l.
Sunday sermons" Let your loins be girded
| about, and yours lights burning; and We your
selves like unto men that wait for their Lord. "
Luke xii. 1856
Union meetings will be held each day at
3 P. NJ in this city at the Y NJ c. A. rooms,
in the Masonic building, to be led bv the
paStOrS of the several churches