p. 375 | The Noon-Hour Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 17, 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.”

DID you say you were too busy to pray? It is through the communion we hold with Heaven that God fits us for his service here on earth. Notice the railroad system. It makes no difference how congested the freight-yards are with traffic, how fully occupied the trainmen are with their various duties, the engines are never too busy to stop for coal and water. Why?—Because fuel and water mean power, and power is an absolute necessity in their work. Just as the whole great railroad system would be tied up with helpless, dead locomotives and the traffic of a continent paralyzed if they did not stop long enough to get power, even so the work of God is hindered and delayed by lifeless Christians, who do not stop long enough to enter the place of prayer and get the power they must have if they would be of service in giving this last message to a dying world. Let us pause a moment, turn aside from the busy highway, and plead with the Father above for the keeping power of his presence and blessing in our own lives, remembering also those whose requests are printed in this column from week to week.