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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 56.

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The Week of Prayer

By L. L. C.

A YEAR has rolled around, and another week of prayer gives us as a denomination a new privilege of uniting to ask God to accomplish speedily his work throughout all lands. Yet our prayer should first of all be that the divine work of grace be completed in our own hearts; for it is only as this work is done for us that God can use us in extending the knowledge of his love to others. Our own experience must be such that we can say with the apostle John:—
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:1-3.
The past year has been a very remarkable one. God has greatly blessed the work of carrying the message, even though circumstances have seemed in many ways unfavorable. The European war has brought hardships to many of our brethren; but the Lord will still make even the wrath of man to praise God, and the remainder of wrath will restrain. See Ps. 76:10. If in our own personal experience, as we review the year that has gone, we do not see the advancement in Christian character which we should like to see, let us not be discouraged, but, renewing our consecration to the Lord, let us press forward to the victories which God will give us in the year just before us. As the apostle Paul said, we may say:—
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 3:13, 14.
L. L. C.