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The Noon-Hour Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 5, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 49.

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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."

Answered Prayer

"I WISH to thank you for your prayers in behalf of my husband's mother," writes a friend from Nebraska. "Although still very sick, she told me when last I visited her that she had asked God to forgive her sins, and that she was enjoying his peace in her heart."
Mrs. E. Brown, of Texas, sends this word: "I have received a wonderful answer during the last few weeks. 'O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.'"

Requests for Prayer

166. A Missouri sister wishes us to pray that she may be healed from physical infirmities, and fully pardoned for all her sins.
167. From Pennsylvania a sister writes in behalf of a friend who is suffering with tuberculosis of the spine. She is an earnest Christian girl, and before her sickness was an active worker in her home church. She desires to be restored to health if it is God's will.
168. A friend in Louisiana requests prayer for the conversion of her brothers and sisters and their children; also for herself that she may be healed from an affliction which physicians fear will result in paralysis of the arms.
169. An aged brother and sister residing in Texas ask that prayer be offered for the conversion of their son.
170. The following request comes from California: "I earnestly desire the prayers of God's people that if it is his will I may be made physically and mentally strong, and enabled to complete my training for service in this closing work."
171. From Mississippi a sister sends the request that we remember her husband at the noon-hour prayer season. She earnestly desires his conversion.
172. An anxious mother in Colorado asks prayer for the conversion of her eldest son and his wife, and for two other sons and a daughter who know the truth but are cold and indifferent.
173. A young woman writes from Georgia requesting prayer for the conversion of her mother, two sisters, three brothers, and a very dear friend.
174. "Please pray for my eighteen-year-old son, who has recently married a young girl who is not a Christian. Also pray for the conversion of my orphan brother," writes a Nebraska sister.
To the weary ones who have suffered long and painfully without finding the relief desired, the following comforting words from the pen of Marianne Farmingham will prove a message of comfort:—
"God might have kept us without pain; And God is love. There must be better things than ease For us to prove; The furrowed brow, the patient heart, The pale, sad face, The soul that bears what he has sent, Are signs of grace.
"Dear heart that suffers, by this way Life's crowns are won; And is it hard sometimes to say, 'Thy will be done'? But he permits the pain, and he Sends strength to bear. Try to keep still for his dear sake Who answers prayer.
"Pain takes us to his feet, which else We might forget; We cry to him for help, and he Ne'er failed us yet. Much that pain brings is molten gold And richest gain; More than we else could know is taught In schools of pain.
"Pain is a passing thing, and life Is swift to go. God keeps a land so glad that there You will not know The meaning of a pain, and there Is no regret; He will remove the curtain soon, And you forget!"