Prayer Directed Pocketward by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1909

Prayer Directed Pocketward

By T. E. Bowen

T. E. BOWEN

The effectiveness of prayer the true Christian doubts not; but that intelligence is needed in choosing subjects for prayer, we sometimes overlook. In regard to the work of missions, a timely and valuable suggestion will be found in the following quotation from Lucas’s “Empire of Christ,” appearing in The Missionary Review of the World, under the title “Foolish Missionary Prayers:” —

“We have the remarkable spectacle of the establishment of prayer unions beseeching God for more success, side by side with the recognition of our utter inability to provide for the success he has already granted. We send up a prayer to heaven for more work, and we send out a message to the field announcing a reduction of grants. We should be dumbfounded if we received a request from the field asking us to reduce our prayers, on the ground that they were quite unequal to provide for the answers already granted.”

God, in answer to very definite prayer, has opened wide the door of missionary endeavor in nearly every land. But the most stubborn door to open can quite truly be termed “the door of the pocket-book.” Suppose we direct a few prayers thitherward, remembering the statement, “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.”

Takoma Park, D. C.