Union College Prayer Bands by Helen Orr

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

Union College Prayer Bands

By Helen Orr

AT Union College the prayer bands play a large part in the daily routine of exercises. It is because Union realizes that her success lies in the degree of actual power which she receives from God that she has been so concerned in organizing and establishing the prayer bands among her students. Prayer truly is the power that moves the arm of God, and the prayer bands are an efficient instrument with which to lay hold of this power.

Through sincere prayer one is brought into connection with the mind of the One whose will and word are all-powerful; the finite heart is attuned to the great throbbing heart of the Infinite, and a dull life is lighted up with the sunlight of his presence. Not only is a new vision, a fresh hope, through this means given to the individual day by day, but at the same time he can know that his ways are in the hands of him who can best guide them. The school is, after all, only the individuals in a group, and what applies to one applies to many. George Muller, the founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashleydown, Bristol,—institutions that have been for many years among the greatest monuments to a prayer-answering God,—established those institutions and maintained them alone through the power and means received in answer to prayer, and God's purpose in them was certainly fulfilled. It is said that he never had a need during the time of his work there but that, having prayed for its supply, he received it. The world abounds in such examples of God's answer to prayer.

HELEN ORR.