The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-02-24
The Noon Hour of Prayer.
Jennie FowIer. Willing.

Jennie Fowler Willing.
The w. G. T. U. was born Of prayer.
The Crusade was the result Of the bap-
tism Of the Holy Spirit received by good
women who had prayed long and earn
estly against the great infquity. He
answered; and Immediately they found
themselves where they could live only
as kings are said to reign, by the grace
of God"
The Holy Spirit TRANSPORTED the wo-
men who gave themselves fully TO Him
for this service. During the session of
the general executive committee of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
that Crusade year, while in attendance
on conservation meeting, ] noticed at
the futher end of the room familiar
countenance which / could not quite
place. Presently the one in question
rose to speak, and ] recognized her as
Mrs. D., secretary of the Cincinnati
Branch. / had sat beside her, hour after
hour, during previous years sessions of
the committee, but somehow she seem
ed marvelously changed.
As this woman told the wonderful
story of the Crusade in her city, her
face was like the face of an angel. She
had waited in prayer for two weeks,
she said. To get her own consent to 20
out in obedience to the Spirits call and
face the terrible opposition. And then
she told how He had come into her soul,
and given her the mastery Of her own
/ timidity; and she might have added,
her social exclusiveness, for she was q
woman of high standing in her church
and community. She spoke OF the We
tories He had wrought in making her
willing to kneel on the sidewalk and
pray in front OF saloons, while women
on the floor above held kettles of boil
ing water that they threatened to pour
on the Temperance women, and men
levellel loaded guns at their heads. As
she finished that recital, ] no longer
WONDERED that the fashion Of her count
lenanee should so speak OF the heavenly.
/ Tennyson says, more things are
wrought by prayer than this world
dreams of" Great things we're wrought
during those Crusade days. At the and
of the first years agitation there were
$4,000 600 less revenue in the United
States treasury from the sale OF strong
drink than in preceding years.
we need yet greater things. We are
appalled, by the enemy's power, and the
terrible ruin he works on every hand.
Only the Lord can set up standard
against him. Let us call Him at the
noon hour Of concerted prayer. Let us
observe the hour habitually, beginning
Immediately, that with the coming Of
1906 we shall have formed the habit OF
aslSinp for great temperance revival.
II is possible for us TO voice nearly To-
: 600 900 prayers during the next year.
There is tremendous power in con-
certed prayer and faith. A man once
asked the architect Of q great bridge
how much weight it would support,
naming many thousand tons.
"Oh, yes, easily that many" replied
the architect.
$50 many more1" asked the man.
cor. yes. That wouldn't swerve 1t
hairs breadth"
80 many moref"
certainly. IL could stand under that
pressure with no risk of giving way"
DIS there anything that it can't
stand?" exclaimed the man, incredulous-
ly.
"Well. do tell me whatp
"The rythmicaI tread of regiments Of
men," was the impressive reply.
Let our 100000 women como ryth-
mically in line at high noon Of every
day during 1906, and this stronghold Of
the evil one, the liquor traffic, will fall
TO its destruction.