The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-02
. PRAYERS
| FOR PEACE.


FOR PEACE.
By proclamation of President Will
son, next Sunday, October 4th, will
be observed in the churches through
out the United States as a day Of
PRAYER in behalf of a restoration of
peace among the warning nations of
the world.
Some men of the street have been
heard to scott at this proposed sup
rlication to the Almighty Ruler of
the Universe on the part of Christian
men and women in behalf of Divine
intercession. To them the work is
hopeless.
But they forget that it is because
of the very hopelessness Of the cause
from human point of view that d.
vine intercession is to be urged. The
president makes this human hopeless
ness the one great reason for asking
intercession of a power which at best
is viewed by finite beings as through
glass, darkly." He says:
Therefore, l, Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States of
| America, do designate Sunday, the
| fourth day of October next, day
of PRAYER and supplication, and do
request all God fearing persons to
repair on that day to places OF
worship, there to unite their peti-
tons to Almighty God, that over
ruling the counsel of men, setting
straight the things they cannot gov
ern or alter, taking pity on the ma
tons now in the throes of conflict,
in His mercy and goodness show
ing a way where men can see none,
He vouchsafe His children healing
peace again and restore once more
that concord among men and nations
without which there can be neither
happiness nor true friendship nor
any wholesome fruit of toll or
thought in the WORLD praying also
to this end that He forgive US our
sins, our ignorance of His holy will,
our willfulness and many errors,
and lead US in the paths of obedi-
ence to places of vision and to
thoughts and counsels that purge
and make wise.
Don't scott. Remember that pray
el YOU earned at your mothers knee
as she kissed you good night and tuck
ed you in bed?
; "Now I lay me down to sleep.
: prav Thee. Lord, my soul to keep;
If | should die before | wake,
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.
You were a child then. And you
must become as a little child now
when you approach the Throne of the
All-Father. You must recognize your
helplessness and the helplessness OF
nations You must recognize the
Power of Him whom the winds anc
. the sea obey"
If you can give to the Almighty
q Creator of the Universe your recog'
milton of this power, then your pray
er will be heard. You don't know how
to pray? You learned a prayer at
YOUR mothers knee. 1t was an Ole
one. one that millions of little chill
dren in all parts of the world, speak
ing all languages, have used. 1t wa:
a PRAYER composed for children. Here
is one composed for those children Of
larger growth who are willing to be
come "Iittle" in order to help in thi:
world movement for peace. 1t wa'
prepared by Bishop Greer of New
York; if you can make use Of 1t il
the right spirit, it is yours:
80 God, Who hast made Of one
blood all nations Of men to dwell
on the face of the earth, and VINO
: in Thy Holy Word hast taught us
that One is our Father, even God,
and that we are all brethren; We
prav Thee in this dark hour Of inter-
national strife that Thou wilt open
$ the eyes of the people and those
e who in Thy Name are entrusted
with the authority of gOvernance,
to see and understand their right
and true relation to Thee, and
= through Thee to one another.
i eacn IneU ny my SPlllI Ii'"'N -
! tired and violence are not strength
but weakness; that the true safe
guarding of nation is not to be
n found in weapons of war but In
those eternal principles which make
for righteousness and truth and
o brotherhood and peace. Amen"
1t is not necessary that you shout
repeat a prepared prayer as by roEe
in fact it is better that you should no
unless you can make it yours. Pray
err to be real should be the intense de
sire of the heart-a real soul longing
: One who knew has described it thus:
;, prayer is the souls sincere desire
Uttered or unexpressed;
= The motion of a hidden fire,
r That slumberS in the breast