The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-13
ought 10 learn TO pray for Cots Spirit
lust rs our LUNGS pray for a;r

ought TO learn TO pray for Gods Spirit
just IS our lungs pray for s.ir.
when ye learn this lcSson there viii
he no talk of lack OF spiritual health in
iae brotherhood. He told the incident of
five men who worked on, five hundred il
appearing Incidentally hat he was one
of the five. Their method was to send
through the mails. TO selected addresses
ard go as to reach the recipient on each
Saturday morning, postal cards on which
were printed in large text, short scrip
tule lessons In the corner Of the card
was an address which the recipient mi-ht
use for the reply If he so desired. For a
long time no response whatever came. At
last responses began to come, actuated by
mere curiosity Even these were very few
when compared with the large number
sent out.
The men were not. however, dis
c6uraged. Each week, when the cards were
mailed, the men met and prayed for the
message they bore Then each day they
prayed Individually for the mission of the
cards. at length replies began to come.
There were Invitations to call, and the
result as a whole was most remarkable.
1t proved beyound question that God does
answer prayer. Mr.. English related his
visit to one man, Ill unto death. who had
been reached and brought TO Christ through
this postal card effort. Mr.. English said
however, that the postals We're merely the
method: that which accomplished results
was the answer which God gave to
prayer"
URGED PERSONAL WORK.
Mr.. Billings, who is Boston social
settlement worker. talked of persistent
effort in the application Of the Rule OF
Service" the rule in its broad and not in
its narrow sense. Without making it at
oil personal the fact came out that he had
himself worked upon one man for twelve
years and has not yet succeeded. Still, he
believed as firmly as he believed in the
Brotherhood and in God, that he would
eventually bring that man into the church,
it might be he would yet appear on
Brotherhood Convention platform as a
speaker. He urged personal work and
deplored the bureaucracy of modern times
lie said he never knew a committee to
shed tear. he warned men who tried
sometimes to hide their religion from fear
of being charged with can't that there is
danger of going too far
a judge in Portland, volunteering to do
some brotherhood work, was sent by his
rector to call on a man who proved to be
tpstaff in his own court. The man. con-
slderably astonished. exclaimed that he
never knew the judge 10 interest himself
in anything of that sort
Mr.. Billings wondered If brotherhood
men in general let their light shine so
poorly, and mentioned the struggle II cost
him to dictate his notes, those which he
held in his hand. to his office secretary.
The latter knew him in business vav.
A rector from Boston suburban parish
came one day for Mr.. Billings to show
him the Settlement work of Boston He
was shown all of it. and exclaimed al
night. at being panied over the fact, that
the church was left out of all of it. The
worker replied that every person whom
the priest had seen that day was a fol-
lower of Christ Had they not been they
would not be at work as they were Mr.
Billings deplored the hiding of ot1 true
colors in this way, and wondered il 9TH
ers were as easily led to think of US as out
side the church. and working on solely
humanitarian lines. as was this suburban
priest concerning these Settlement work
ers.
After the addresses a resolution was
adopted thanking the ladies Of the Episco-
pal Churches of Richmond for the magni-