Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-16
100000 AT PRAYER.

Are the destinies of the world to be shaped by
adult equivalent of Now Lay Me Down To Sleep?
Will the ballot be complmented by daily prayer
as an instrument popular power in the Democ-
racy?
Sheer prayer-power, organized and encountered
throughout United States already is being put be-
hind a program of world reconstruction
Has not the war proved that intensive praying will
help the achievement of great material aims?
Foch prayed every day His strategy victorious.
Woodrow wilson, is is said, was found day on
his knees in the White The ideals for which he
stands are conquerng
More than 100000 American soldiers went to
France to fight great fight Thousands of them-how
many no one knows-on French fields, awaiting zero
hour" prayed for the first time since childhood
AT home millions of women prayed every night
for their men. !1..
Communities, states made prayer for victory.
Behind and above them ALL stood Lincoln.
Il have been driven many times to my knees" he
said by the overwhelming conviction that had no
where else go; my wisdom that of all around me
seemed insufficient for the day.
Centuries ago, Plato said, Every of sense be-
fore beginning important work. will ask help of the
gods"
THE act of praying" said Coleridge, long after
ward lis the very highest energy which human
mind is capable"
The intensive application of the energy" to great
tasks of life national and world problems is not
to be abandoned with
1t is already being hamessed for reconstruction.
To concentrate the emery of prayer behind $1O5,-
100000 program of world reconstruction, National
Fellowship of Intercession has been organized by the
Joint Centenary Commission of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Since the signing of the armistice than 2OO,-
900 persons have registered for membership Additional
registrations being received the of approx
imately 5000 day.
Twenty-Five denominations are represented in the
Fellowship begun primarily organization of Meth
odists to mobilize spiritual power for the Methodist Cen
tenary Movement. Twenty countries outside of the
United States have added members a body originally
conceived as purely national
And every member is pledged to pray daily for the
success of the world program of the Centenary.
When the Methodist Episcopal church determined to
celebrate the centenary the founding OF mission
work by initiating word-program of reconstruction
necessitang expenditure of $O5 100000 in five years
its leaders decided that such movement would de-
pend upon two major forces-the practical
gained action and the spiritual energy of prayer.
Believing this and seeing that the worlds new will
to prayer demonstrated by the war, must not be lost
they organized Department Mobilization of Spirit
Lal Resources and set at its head committee of so of
the most prominent churchmen in Methodism
This department under the direct supervision of al
New York man, w. E. Doughty, has its offices at I'LL
Fifth avenue, New York the national headquarters of,
the centenary movement.
Here is not the atmosphere prayer but of bust
Filing contain the thousands of signedi
pledges from every state in union and many coun-
tries outside it. corps of ypss of clerical work
devotes itself receiving, sorting numbering and
filing the pledges,
Yet prayer plays its part here. too
Every day at gong taps thrice At the
sound every typewriter is hushed stamping ceases work
is laid aside and heads bowed For the space oil