The Day of Prayer and Fasting by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 19, 1911

The Day of Prayer and Fasting

By Arthur G. Daniells

I WOULD speak just a last word to our brethren regarding this important occasion. The day of fasting and prayer, to be observed January 21 by all our churches in North America, is for great victories everywhere in the proclamation of God's message to the world. The Bible history warrants us in thus seeking God. Read, in 2 Chron. 20: 1-30, of the wonderful deliverance that God wrought for all Judah and Jerusalem as Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast throughout the land. Read again in the book of Esther how God wrought for his people, as, powerless to work out the problem in their own strength, they turned their faces toward heaven in fasting and prayer.

Dear brethren and sisters, we must see more of this special and mighty working of God's power back of all our toil and sacrifice and endeavor of every kind to finish the work given us to do in this generation. Surely one way to get the help we must have is to seek it as his people sought and found it in olden days—by most earnest, importunate, united prayer, with fasting.

A. G. DANIELLS.