The Decline of the Week of Prayer
By Editor
The Christian at Work bewails the fact that the week of prayer does not command the hearty co-operation of the churches that it did ten or fifteen years ago, and says:— "One of our contemporaries, noticing the fact of the decline, says: 'It is only a question of time when the week of prayer will be numbered among the institutions of the past.' Doubtless this is true, and let us say, sooner than see it dwindle away, it would be better to abolish it altogether. When the week of prayer ceases to represent a real want, it ceases to justify its existence." And yet the editor expresses the belief that "great good will come from the week of prayer just past."