New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-01-10
THE PRAYER HEARD AROUND
THE WORLD.

WIN TIC prayer dIOuAlQ JHe
world" the New Year will be
ushered in. In thousand
it will be spoken at Watch-Night
services in near and distant pla-
ces; in the great cities Of the west
ern world no less than in distant
villages on eastern hills. 1t will
be heard by the kneeling woman
in New York pew, by the bare
foot 1gorot headhunter, by Chi
ne converts with bowed heads,
by Hindu women listening rev.
erently with their arms folded
crosswise on their breasts, by
Persian, japanese, Syrian, Russ,
indeed, by all the people of the
world.
From New York, it's starting
point. the rraver has been sent
around the world by the Inter
church World Movement of North
America, a movement to bring
about Protestant cooperation. By
telegraph it has been sent to the
great denominations of this coun-
try: by cable it has gone to Eng
land and the East. Thus it has
been dispatched to every mission
center everywhere. and from
every mission center it has gone
on again in the language of the
country to every Protestant mis-
sion station near and far.
This prayer is the first ever to
he' sent around the world, the
mat ever to be translated into a
thousand languages and spoken
simultaneously lin countless pla-
ces. With one voice, though in
many tongues, it calls for "the
elevation of justice and of broth
erhood" and appeals for the
Fastening of that Kingdom
where justice, mercy and love
shall rule the hearts and hands of
men,"
To Mexico City and Monte
video, the prayer was cabled for
South and Central America; to
Shanghai also, and from there it
was relayed to Japan, the Phil
ippines, Malaysia and Oceanica, to
Lahore. India, for distribution
throughout India and the sur
rounding countries; IN Recht, Per
STA; and to Beirut. Syria, for the
Levant. To Cairo for the north
ern stretches of Africa; to Bolobo
for the darkest places Of thei
Congo; to Durham for South Afri- |
ca for the Zulu and the Bore. Tol
.Uppasala, Sweden. and Zurich,
switzerland, for all the countries
of Europe. From each of these
mission centers it was sent out to
the out-stations everywhere, and
the missionaries will receive it in
the language Of the people of |
their districts, and in every Prot |
estant mission station, great or
small, it will be spoken at special
Watch-Night services on New
Years eve.
And when the fnerrymakers are
thronging through the Boulevard
des Italiens. Paris, or streaming /
along the Strand, or pressing
along the lighted sidewalks of
Broadway, or trudging through |
the Bund in Shanghai, waiting for
the ringing Of the New Year in
churches and in chapels, some Of
them made Of marble and some of
them made of mud, Christian peo-,
pie of the white race, and the vel
low race, and the black race. will
be hearing the prayer that went
around the world. The prayer
for guidance to replenish a de-
vastated earth and stay the unrest
Of perplexed peoples. /
Almighty God, Father of all
mankind. at the end Of a year in
winch malice has so often
thwarted love, we join the pray
ers Of all Thy children around the
world for peace, the elevation of
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