p. 877 | The Noon-Hour Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 11, 1913

The Noon-Hour Prayer

“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”

“To realize the full value of prayer, we must realize it as not only a means but an end; what boon or privilege we ask in prayer could be higher than the privilege of prayer itself,—the privilege of holding communion with the Most High?” The following lines from the pen of Howard Arnold Walter may prove helpful to some troubled heart:—

Answered Prayer

“The way was dark, I prayed for light To guide my soul through deeps of night; But God in wisdom knew me best, He sent the dark and bade me rest. “Beset by storms that would not cease, In agony I prayed for peace; God heard my prayer, but sent me more, The storm waxed wilder than before. “At last I cried, with humble breast, ‘Lord, grant no prayer that is not best. Henceforth thy will, not mine be done’— Behold, he granted every one.”

Requests for Prayer

273. A friend in New York requests prayer that her daughter may be so strengthened in mind and body that she will be able to attend school this year.

274. An afflicted brother in Switzerland, suffering from partial paralysis, desires prayer for healing. It has been very difficult for him to walk during the last fourteen months.

275. “I ask the noon-hour prayer band to remember my sister, who is in very deep trouble; my son, who has left this truth; and my little daughter, who is very ill,” writes a Michigan sister.

276. A sister in Montana desires healing from heart, throat, and lung trouble, if it is God’s will. She asks for prayers.

277. Another sister in the same State (Montana), who is suffering from catarrh, requests prayer that she may be healed of that affliction.

278. Still another Montana sister begs us to remember her invalid daughter in prayer.

279. From Ohio a sister writes requesting that we pray for her father, who is in a critical condition, and must soon submit to a very dangerous operation.