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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 53.

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A Special Day of Prayer

By M. E. K.

THIS number of the REVIEW will find our people in the midst of the week of prayer. It can be truly said that never have we observed so important a week of prayer. The leaders of our General and North American Division Conferences, in their fall council, felt so solicitous in regard to the salvation of our young people that they appointed one day of the week of prayer, Friday, December 18, as a special day of prayer for our youth.
And let us remember that “prayer is power. Through prayer God does things which would not otherwise be done. When he says, If ye ask I will do, he clearly hints that if we do not ask there will be some lack of his doing. This is a great mystery, but it is also a great fact. . . . Christ, speaking of the friend who came at midnight for bread, said,‘Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.’ Christ clearly teaches that some things which God does not give simply from the fact of being a God of grace and because he is our friend, he does give because of our importunity.”
O church of the living God! is there anything more important than that we should now importune God for the outpouring of his Spirit upon our youth? Jesus in heaven, who when on earth said to Peter, “Feed my lambs,” will hear and answer. Then let us pray, and let us invite the young to give their lives to God.
M. E. K.