Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-22
CALL FOR PRAYER IS
 ISSUED BY CRANSTON OF METHODIST CHURCH
The Prayer Will Be Rendered in Every Methodist Church in the United States in the Next Few Days.

WASHINGTON. May 2I.-iu behalf. oi che lishops of the Methodist Epis. copal church, Bishop Earl Cranston of Washington made public today d special 'Car to Prayer" appointed to be read in an the Methodist churches
 "Ont once day only lor merely when convenient. but in onr every thought of God. let ,he cry Of our heaarts necessarily ascend for the peace of Europe and the world" says the appeal
 The text of the call is as follows:
 Tn the divine ordering of events it has been given to American Method ism Co develop and occupy the world parish claimed by the daring faith of John Wesley when Metnodists were despised people The Methodist
 Episcopal Church. now firmly planted on every continent of the globe. must therefore recognize at this crucial period in human affairs her honorable and responsible relation to all races and conditions Of mankind The ten ure of her own spiritual life and lead
 ership is at stake in her attitude to-
 ward this sacred obligation. From the beginning Alcoholism has coucei,- ed of the kingdoms of God as a uni
 versal brotherhood founded i'm the
 spirit and teachings of Jesus Christ.
 with God as Our Father Love as the
 supreme law, and an people and pco-
 ples eligible on equal terms to all its
 benefits for time and eternity What lever obscures this vision of the king
 dom Of God bars the way to its glori-
 ous realization The prayer Thy
 Kingdom Come, has therefore ever
 been the first petition on an human
 tongues cOnsecrated by the halowiug
 Of the Fathers name But now. to
 the horror Of angels and of men. the
 vision is for the time lost by the one
 continent that has been beyond all others sanctihed by the blood of
 Christian. martyrs and the voice of
 God Suenced in the councils of the
 embittered nations Europe is en-
 gulied i'm unuuerable woe and the
 world is filled with an agony of fread
 Christian soldiers are daily passing
 in muluWdes to judgment with the blood of fellow Cchrstians on their
 hands On every wind the walls of . widowed mothers and orphaned child
 ren are mingled with the groaus of
 rIaneled and dying men.
 Under such conditions your chief I pastors com be no longer silent. nor can they meet their duty by a per | functory elaboration to formal pray | CTS for divine intgrpositlon Not until 1 we realize that. beneath au that ap- { pears. this war with its awful earn I age is but % struggle for commercial supremacy can we understand how f alien Go hereditary dyuasties is the ] thought of the universal brotherhood ' of man Every tradition and every l instinct Ol imperialism is in constant l friction with the rule of Christ The ] iealousie5 and harcds of kings and { peoples are not born in haven Let ] victory rest where it may after mu- | lluls ol brave hearts have ceased Go
 beat, the gassdlage of human souls
 Co material wealth, wealth and power < will remain the sure harbnser 0l other wars, of increasing dealings as subomed science adds Go the machin. 1 cry oi destruction, unless God shall ! nightly intervene by unseen force. | whose strategies We may not discern | but whose existence and efficiency
 we dare not doubt What we do
 know is that willing loving, obedient ! hearts are the conductors of these i divine forces in human affairs There
 are enough praying souls in America | to call down a truce oI every battle l front it once they telt the agony Of { Christian intercessiou. That our
 country is yet free from the madness I of strife should the more move us ] To inportuuate and increasing ped- lion that God will make His voice Co 1 be everywhere heard again on land 1 and sea. Only thus at such a time can we witness our faith n God and | our love for men Only thus can we { restrain among our own people the ! .atcnt spirit of war that is already J conjuring every untowarC -nc.Gen, { abroad into am intended insult Co our { aae 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 we'll as of humanity the
 world over, to follow Him into Geth-
 semane ol prevailing prayers. Some
 where the song or 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, you chief pastors have
 commissioned me as their voice of
 the church, to call every member of
 our communion 10 sympathetic fellow ship with the Savior of men in His 7 unceasing intcrcessions with the
 Father in behalf Of His errng child I ren and in the soOtine of the algered