Several times we have spoken of the utter futility and the travesty on Christian evangelism of the chain-letter prayer scheme. We are glad to add what the Sunday-School Times has to say in response to a correspondent on the subject:— Imagine Paul of Tarsus starting a chain letter to “the saints that are at Ephesus”! Imagine Simon Peter urging all of his friends to ask three of their friends to pray that God would “cause many to go and proclaim the glad tidings to those who are in darkness”! Imagine the Nazarene leaving this last message with His disciples: “Write ye unto all the world, that the Father may cause some one else to preach the Gospel to the whole creation.” The “chain letter” appeal for prayer or service is a travesty and a burlesque on the Great Commission. It is a bait for lazy people who would shirk their own duty and shift their responsibility on to others. It is promiscuous, not individual,—and promiscuous preaching or praying is worse than worthless. Study the Bible, Old Testament and New, if you would find how God would have men work in the kingdom. Take up “the whole armor of God,” which may include a suit of chain mail against temptation, and the chain lightning of Spirit-fired speech; but shun the chain letter as you would the shackles of the evil one; it is not part of the armory of the soldier of the faith. Verily, “there are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.”