The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-06
pDWER OF PRAYER
 ON HUMAN AFFAIRS
4.|kS<rf Given Special Attention at the z4nunity Institute Tuesday Ar <e<noon--Dr. McCord Denounced
 fxil Influences in Modern Life.

r,<afest in the Community lnsti- <..<. being conducted by Drs. McCord so6 Stanley is becoming more tense. 7611t gathered at the Baptist Church I,.s8.Iev afternoon to hear Doctor s xly'z 2 jSv's discussion on "The Power of f4.uar.v came away convicted that If ... 6&xe failed in the undertakings in 1|fe may be traced largely to the <44z <.at we have not first asked help ....< 94,;dance from the Master, for, sz;d c. "The power of the true Chris fzan is due to the contact with the dy- rSs.s;e force of Almighty God thru the sxset hours of prayer. Prayer pro d3,ees results,' he continued, but it x UoEk and requires effort" It is the bower of the church, and if Christians kavc Failed in the work of the Master thrd the church, the speaker asserted thaf # was due to the fact that we ';Ii<1e ;| gotten away from the custom of Y|f1Vef and have drifted from the fam jI< 0Izar. The power of prayer for the 1oT55 6f our individual lives would FIT little, MT. Stanley said, if it did 6| 4{so broaden our lives, awaken a ||I| {Dr social energy and arouse uni- <4<51| and international interest so 56l fe can say with the man from .6I178. Japan, Mexico or any other 19u6kfy, "Our Father Who Art in His Afternoon Doctor McCord will ez<<S xhis thought still further when he h<iligs a message to his hearers 8fI t<f true inwardness of the great pf2N&f of our Master.
 A 44<n last night, at the Baptist <hux<t there was a large. audience to h{&r <he intensely earnest, practical 1I2&1s1He on "Tne Settled vs. the Un- s<tfI6d Life" The scathing arraign- 3ne1a< 6y the speaker of the forces and llI14slees that are responsible for I01c|i of the unsettled condition of Ux6<0|f day American life made many 4{ 64 hearers cringe, for they realized <a6< le was speaking the truth, and |&< Some of these forces were active ii tl1r own city and county. They {|lII.2od, too, because they realized zz!!z -Aese forces for evil exist be- W <iose who know better permit <11 to exist. Tt is true," Mir. Me- <6 1ajd, that chaos and restlessness
 1Hsral everywhere, and that un- tef fdeal conditions thought should ,! !.. - l@ ! ss!s:srene." In q clear portrayal W j|<<&, Doctor McCord showed that 50g hings are settled, that all ques- 0l3as ETC constantly being reopened, I<1 me result that a man can believe
 I'{fK that he wishes. Nationally
 4ynlt everyone to make America G< He wishes it to be from his own d0Q1nt, forgetting that it is not 41lE 4esirable but necessary if we are zo ue the Nation to rule the destiny of me world we must keep step one with kI105lIex always looking ahead to see III IA are going iIi the direction Will make America for the
 t1Is, and that the great ideal Qs is the Master of all men.
 ht Doctor McCord will talk
 Unlimited Possibilities of The hour for the lecture to be-
 De 8 o'clock. but let all come
 church early to join in the
 Evice led by J. W. Van Hoy.
 f the finest influences of the EEity Institute has been the Etz brought to the High School S<NqeEH by Doctor Stanley on the general fheme of choosing life voca- siQ5 Inc last of these lectures was .if ]. ixtzfH Wednesday morning when in l.' Mtzsage At the Cross Roads of A'ize Doctor Stanley touched every 2<'E Lrz4*k the sound of his voice when z< W44e lt plain that sooner or later
 Vzld reach that strategic point
 <<oss roads of life when brain
 nd prayer must be used to e right choice. Going thru I'd rent vacations of business.
 agriculture, medicine, sur
 rsing, engineering, journal E. zz1'l lastly politics he held before z!.5 3snts ideals and idealism which 11 x1:|71<ed will help them when they x ms point in life. He stressed *:|e 7Eht that in this day no one < 4 2 '< IeEmit the job to hunt him, but mould pick the job and then
 ob- In holding up the ideals T = Doctor Stanley paid
 zbute to The Star, saying to
 'fs that in all his travels he
 2me across paper that was
 1e schools, the community
 est interests of the state in
 pc than was their home pa-
 rged loyalty and support of
 @stitution.
 Doctor Stanley will talk to
 of Acorn who will gather
 Immunity singing preceding
 "A AT POULTRY SHOW.