Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-01-31
PRAYERS and Answers.

"Dr. Brown, VIII you answer Le
yes or no to a question | shall ask
you?" Bob demanded of his minister
almost belligerently.
'I shall have to hear the question
first" replied the rector.
"Well, the question is this Sup
posing one prayed in the right spirit
and with perfect faith, is his prayer
sure to be answered ?"
"That is one Of the many questions
that cannot be answered by yes or no, !"
said DR.. Brown. at depends on
what you mean by answer. If you
mean, does everyone always receive
the thing for which he prays, thank
God, no, he doesn't. If we did, we
should live in the midst of chaos in
describable. Then the world would
be ruled, not by an All-Wise Father,
but by every ignorant but honest man
who prayed. Thank God that is not
the way the world is run"
But" he continued, "in a deeper
sense, in every sincere prayer, with
out exception, there is an answer. It's
a good deal as it was with my grand
daughter the other day. The little
girl was tired and sleepy and fretful.
She asked for something or other,
and when it was given her she asked
at once for something else. She kept
it up for some time. The truth is, she
didn't know what she wanted. FL
nally her mother just gathered her
up in her arms, and laid the little ones
head on her breast and rocked and
soothed her, and the little girl lay
there utterly content. The mother
did not give her the thing she asked
for, but she did 20 beueath the re-
quest and answer the child's need,
and even the chld's desire.
THAT is why the race has contin-
ued to pray generation after genera
ton, in spite of the fact that the things
asked for specifically so often are not
given. Even when we do not get the
specific thing we ask for, we get
something so tremendous from the
heart of our Heavenly Father that the
little thing we asked for and were de-
MED by comparison is nothing at ALL"
cts really true, then, that all
prayers are answered ?"
every real prayer is always an
swered," said Dr. Brown. Nothing
in human experience is more certain"
Join The Army Reserve.
Beginning January 28th for a two
weeks period the United States Ship
ping Board desires to enroll a re-
serve army of 250,000 carpenters,
blacksmiths, riveters and boilermakers
who may be useful in doing work in
the ship-building yards of the coun-
try, as and when their services may
be needed. There are l45,000 men en-
gagged in this work We must have
ships, ships, and more ships and this
reserve army of workers, when enroll
ed, can be utilized to furnish addi-
tional men to this all-important work
as needed Wages are good and the
working conditions are good, but this
appeal is made to the patriotism of
workers rather than to their selfish
help win the war, for we must have
ness. To drive a rivet in a ship is to
ships, otherwise we cannot transport
more men to France or feed and mu-
nitions to those already there. Are
YOU carpenter or mechanic? DO
you want to join this reserve army of
workers, offer your services in help
ing to win the war, in an absolutely
imperative work? If so, notify F.
S. Harrison, Halltown, chairman of
the County Council of Defense for
Jefferson county, or J. V. Sullivan,
Secretary State Council of Defense,
Charleston, West Virginia, and an ap-
plication blank will be sent to you to
fill up and sign.
Many men are saying and writing
TO me that they want help. To the
man who is carpenter or a mechanic,
here is real opportunity.
JOHN !. CORNWELL, Governor,
Chairman State Council of Defense.
Picking Out Secretary.