The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-05-20

free from the madness OF strife
should the more move us to impor-
tunate and increasing petition that
God will make His voice to be every
where heard again on land and sea,
Only thus at such time can we
witness our faith in God and our
love for men Only thus can we re
strain among our own people the
latent spirit of war that is already
coniuring every untoward incident
abroad into an intended insult to our
flag Only thus can We subdue the
rising resentment of our own hearts
against unjust foreign criticism of
our nation at this crisis in its history.
So the spirit of our Lord pleads with
us by every consideration of peace
at home as well as of humanity the
world over to follow Him into Geth-
semane of prevailing prayer Some
where the song of the angelic host
must still be heard Somewhere the
sun of peace must continue to shine.
while Europe is in eclipse. From
somewhere must blow the kindly cur
rents that shall cool the fever Of
hate and revenge that is consuming
our brothers beyond the sea.
Therefore, your chief pastors have
commissioned me as their voice of
the church, to call every member OF
our communion to sympathetic fel-
lowship with the Saviour of men in
His unceasing intercessions with the
Father in behalf of His errng chill
dren, and in the soothing of the an
! gered hearts of men into patience and
compassion toward all their neigh
bors, to the end that the rulers and
peoples now at war may cease to
kill, and learn to love as children of
the one Father in heaven.
Not once day only, nor merely
when convenient, but in our every
! thought of Cod in every pang that
comes with tidngs of fresh horrors
in every secret prayer for self and
home and country, as well as in every
public service, every session Of sun.
day school and Epworth League alone
or in companies. let the cry Of our
hearts necessarily ascend for the
peace of Europe and the world Let
prayer be added to prayer and petit
tons be multiplied, until their vol,
uEe of faith and feryor mingling
with like incense rising from the al
tars Of all the churches, shall fill the
| Sky, and charge all the oyerhanging
atmosphere with love and peace and
goodwill to be waited by the COM
passionate currents that flow ever
from Gods loving heart, to the heal
| ing of the deadly hurts of His people
Let us teach the little children to
pray for Gods other little ones left
| fatherless, and many of the homeless
Surely there are woes enough to draw
hot tears from every eye and out
! breaking prayer from the dumbest
soul.
yes, yes, overlay the land with
the blessed calm that prayer alone
can bring. We want not preparedness
for war, but preparedness for God
| and His peace, for the sheltering of
our nation. We have Christian
president and about him in council
are men who pray. Let our united
faith also support their constant
appeal to God for patience and poise
and wisdom amid the storm of con-
flicting adyces by which they are
beset. Their only refuge. our only
refuge, Europe's only hope and hu-
manitys only hope, is in God. There
fore pray, pray, pray without ceas-
ing,
From the answering heavens al
ready comes the voice: God will
shine forth triumphantly. God will
walk in glory upon the fields plowed
by the shells of battle, sown with
the bodies of the dead, and watered
by the blood of those gone forth
And the harvest will be God estab-
lshed in the hearts of living men
Not since the time of martyrs has
there been such faith as will be
! Amen,
In behalf of the Bishops.
.EARI CR ANSTONU