The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-04
YOUNG MEMS week
OF PRAYER TO Be
Observed IN COUNTY

The national week OF prayer for
young men, Nov. 9 to Is. is to be OBJ
served in Wayne county in response
to call issued by the International
Committee of the Young Mems Chris
ton association.
The executive committee OF the
Church Federation of Richmond in
session Monday afternoon at the Y.
M. c. A., requested that call be is
sued to the churches OF Wayne county
In the name Of the church federation
and in accord with the call for the
week Of prayer-urging the churches
OF the county to respond to the call
The call, issued by Dr. John r.
Mott. general secretary Of the Inter
national Committee of the Y. M. c. A.
and Alfred E. Marling, chairman of
the International committee, follows:
"To the Young Mems Christian As
sociations of North America:
ION the authority Of tho last inter
| national convention, we call upon all
Young Mems Christian Associations
throughout North America. as we'll az
| upon the churches, to observe the per-
Tod. Nov. 9 to 16 inclusive, as a week
OF prayer for young men. We issue
this call with a profound sense Of the
supreme need at the present time of
| intercession on behalf of the young
| men and boys of the two great sister
Anglo-Saxon nations - the United
States and Canada.
I'm the years of the war the Ameri-
can and Canadian young men, by their
patriotic response to the call Of coun-
try and civilization, by their discipline
and heroism and by their devotion
even unto death. won the undying
gratitude Of their countrymen and
helped to establish the liberties Of the
world. The great struggle revealed
the boundless yet comparatively latent
capacities for adventure, for cO-opera
ton. for sacrificial effort and for con
structive achievement wrapped up in
| the lives Of these millions Of Anglo
Saxon youth. With the ending Of the
war have come to them greatly in
creased pressure and strain and null
tiplied temptations and perils. The
new world and the new day which
they have done so much to usher in
make tremendous demand upon
them for unselfish service.
with lively gratitude to God fol
what our young men have already
! achieved, with sincere sOlicitude be
cause Of the grave and subtle dangers
which imperil them, and with vivit
realization of the unique influence
which they are to exert in the comine
day, Christians everywhere should
give themselves to prayer in their be
half For thirty years and more they
will be the chief factor in determin
ing the destiny of the United State:
and Canada
"The leaders of the churches and O
the associations will know best how
to give necessary currency to this
call, and to ensure the wisest a:
we'll as the widest possible observance
of the week Of prayer. Let more us'
than ever before be made of public
prayer in the pulpits and in church
prayer services. of daily intercessiol
meetings of leaders and other group:
within the associations, and of thu
religious press.
This year we combine with thu
call for the week of prayer for youn:
men the special request for praye
for the coming international conven
ton. to be held at Detroit. Novembe
10 to 23, a gathering which. if com
plctely dominated by the power Q
Almighty God, will be the most nota
bic and potential assembly in all tn
long series of forty International con
ventions
Some grounds for thankssivin;
and certain definite objects for inter
cession are appended for use in ind
vidual and united prayer.