Keeping the Armor Bright
By Urbanus Bender
The great missionary campaign in which we are engaged is not the beginning nor the end of the work of God's people. It is but one of a series of special moves in the great warfare which will never end till Jesus comes. There is no discharge in this war. Eccl. 8:8. Some, growing tired of service, will throw off their armor, and desert the ranks. Others will fall upon the field, but still this army of the Lord will move on till “their warfare is accomplished.” As an important feature in this great movement, the Lord has called his people to appear before him for a week of prayer. The Saviour of the world realized the necessity of prayer, and often do we find him communing thus with his Father. If the Son of God needed help from above, how much more we! “Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;
Prayer makes the Christian’s armor bright;
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.” In the week of prayer just before us may we be willing that the Lord shall lay upon us the burden of answering the world's cry by giving ourselves and our means for service. URBANUS BENDER, of Arkansas.