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A Call To Prayer

A Call To Prayer
The President and the Governors
of the several States have again APP
pointed a day of Thanksgiving and
Prayer In behalf Of the Christian
Churches and upon the request OF
their War Service Commissions we
desire to support this call and TO
ask the Christian people Oh the lanu
to extend the observance from
Thanksgiving Day over the ensuing
Sunday. We suggest that Thursday
be devoted to our customary nation
al Thanksgiving, Friday to penitence
and humiliation, Saturday to suppl
cation and Sunday to intercession.
Our generation confronts the gray
est and most solemn issues. Twice
our fathers faced such issues, at the
beginning of the nation and in the
tragedy of the Civil War. And now
our time of supreme need and trial
has come. How can we meet 1t eX-
cept in the guidance and strength OF
God? By our own necessities and by
the distress and calamity OF man
kind we are summoned to prayer. In
the name of the churches we voice
this summons TO all our people.
On Thursday in our homes and in
our churches let us give thanks to
God for His goodness and His inf
mite patience and pity, for freedom
and prosperity, for our nation and
our homes, for the security of our
shores, for peace within our own Dor
ders. for the sense of national unity
and brotherhood, for the honor OF
self-sacrifice and the glory of service
unto death, for Gods gracious love
and for the salvation provided for us
and for all mankind in Jesus Christ
our Lord.
BE careful for nothing; but in ev-
cry thing by prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all I'M
Outstanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus. -
Phil. ", 6, Z.
On Friday let us implore the COM
passion and forgiveness of God and
confess and repent of our sins, our
selfishness and Indebtedness, our
acceptance of un-ChriStian conditions
and ideals, our liberation of impurl-
ty and intemperance and the various
forces of evil which prey upon the
lives of our people and unnerve the
nation, our race prejudice and our
assent to any form of injustice
among ourselves or in our relations
to other peoples. In sorrowful re-
membrance of our own faults and
errors, let us humble ourselves be-
fore God and pray for His mercy that
we may be spared His just judgment.
IF we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in US. If we confess our sins.
He is faithful and just to forgive US
our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.' - John, I, s, 8.
On Saturday let us beseech God for
His blessing upon our homes, our
churches, our communities, all our
agencies of service and benevolence,
our country, for the overthrow of
wrong and the triumph of righteous
ness, for the enlightenment of the
mind of the nation to know and do
His will, for courage to endure every
sacrifice at the call of duty. for for
titude in the hour of adversely, and
that we may offer unto God for His
work the united body of the nation.
Let US pray for our soldiers and sail
Ors that they may assist Dy Gods
grace in the sure establishment of
law and order and justice. Let us
implore Him in His infinite goodness
to soften the hearts, enlighten the
minds, and quicken the conscience of
all men that courses of wrong may
be relinquished, that the effusion of
hind no siound that tho Jrf
of humanity may be healed, that
stored and that peace may be estab
lished throughout the earth.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and Glamour, and evil speak
ing be put away from you, with all
other, even as God for Christ's sake
On Sunday let us make interces-
sion for all men, for the suffering
and destitute, for our allies and for
our enemies, for those who have
gone forth from us, without anger or
hate, at the call of duty, to serveour
nation and mankind In this great
struggle On land and sea, that God
may enable them worthily to live or
Name and that, if it be His will, they
shall both do all their duty and re-
turn to us again. Let us pray for
the President and for Congress and
for all who in this hour serve in any
way the common veal that they may
be given courage and wisdom and
conservation and that the cause of
righteousness may triumph. Let us
pray for all mankind and for the
coming of its one hope and deliver
ance in the reign of Jesus Christ our
Lord as the King of all the earth.
Il exhort therefore, that, first of
all. supplication, prayers, interces-
sions, and giving of thanks, be made
for all men; for kings, and for all
that are in authority; that we may
lead quiet and peaceable life in all
goodness and honesty. For this is
good and acceptable in the sight of
God and our Saviour; who will have
all men to be saved, and to come un-
to the knowledge of the truth. For
there Is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a
ransom for all. to be testified in due