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The Noon-Hour Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 40.

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The Noon-Hour Prayer

By Editor

"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends."
Our Heavenly Father is always ready and willing to answer the sincere prayer of the humblest of his children, but sometimes the answer must be delayed until some work in us is finished, some preparation gained which is needful before the best answer can be received. He waits to bestow upon the suppliant heaven's richest blessing; and if we ask in faith, he will freely give in his own good time.
"Unanswered yet, the prayer your lips have pleaded In agony of heart these many years? Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing, And think you all in vain those falling tears? Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer; You shall have your desire sometime, somewhere.
"Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted; Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done; The work began when first your prayer was uttered, And God will finish what he has begun. If you will keep the incense burning there, His glory you will see sometime, somewhere.
"Unanswered yet? Faith can not be unanswered. Her feet are firmly planted on the rock; Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted, Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock. She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer, And cries, It shall be done, sometime, somewhere."
Since the last issue of the REVIEW the following requests for prayer have come to us:—
84. A sister in Tennessee desires prayer for her husband, who, because of his wife's faithfulness in observing the Sabbath, refuses to help the family.
85. From California comes a request for prayer from a mother whose daughter, the wife of one of our ministers, is suffering from epilepsy. Let us seek God earnestly for her restoration.
86. A burdened mother writes from Ohio requesting prayer for her son whose mind is unbalanced.
87. A Minnesota mother asks our prayers for the healing of her son who is suffering with epilepsy.
88. From an afflicted family in Illinois comes the earnest request that we pray for the restoration of a son and a daughter who are ill with typhoid fever, and for the mother, that she may have strength to care for them.
89. A sister from the same State (Illinois) asks prayer for the conversion of two sons and their wives and two sons-in-law.
90. A mother writes from Missouri desiring prayer that her son who has left home may return. He once knew the Lord, but has wandered away. Let us pray for his conversion.
91. From Indiana comes this request: "I earnestly desire your prayers in behalf of my son who is in the insane asylum. Pray that God may bless and heal him spiritually, mentally, and physically."
92. A sister writes from Mississippi that she has been stricken with pellagra, and earnestly asks our united prayers that, if it be God's will, she may be restored to health. Her husband is a colporteur, and her five little children need her care.