p. 686 | The Noon-Hour Prayer by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 17, 1913

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."

THE hot summer season is a time of vacations. Naturally there is a lessening of vital energy, and we do not feel the same keen interest in our work that we do under more favorable conditions. Let us remember that Satan never takes a vacation. Untiringly he labors to circumvent the plans of providence and to draw us away from our allegiance to God. Let us be instant in season and out of season. Let us be faithful in prayer. The noon hour is the time suggested when we should particularly remember those whose requests are presented in this column. The editor acknowledges many rich blessings from the Lord as day by day he has retired for a little space, and held up before the Father of mercies the requests of his suffering children. We present a number of earnest calls for help this week.

We regret that we cannot give space to all the requests for prayer which come to us. Some do not seem particularly appropriate for this column. To illustrate: One sister writes requesting that we pray for the way to be opened for her to go to school; another writes of property to which she has fallen heir, desiring that she come into speedy possession of the same, that she may use it for the education of the youth; and another writes asking that the church to which she belongs may be remembered at the noon hour, that its members may work together in peace and quietness. These are surely all worthy objects of prayer, but on account of their character we do not feel like presenting them before our readers. This column was opened for the special benefit of those who are suffering with physical infirmities or passing through some special trial. It seems necessary to confine it to this class of requests. Let us remember those who have asked that we pray for them this week.

Requests for Prayer

247. A Kansas mother desires prayer that her son may be healed from heart trouble.

248. Another sister in Kansas asks us to pray that she may be strengthened for severe trials through which she is being called to pass.

249. An anxious mother in Ohio requests prayer for the healing of her

daughter, who is suffering from a complication of diseases.

250. A brother living in Nova Scotia has been suffering from nervous prostration for about eighteen months. Satan has caused him to sink into a state of despair, and he begs us to pray for his restoration to health, and deliverance of soul and body from Satan's control.

251. "Please remember me at the noon-hour prayer, that God may remove my affliction and give me grace for the trials that await me; also that he may bless my husband with health," writes a sister from Alberta, Canada.

252. An anxious Oklahoma sister writes in behalf of her brother, asking us to pray that he may be restored from injuries received in an accident.

253. A Georgia brother requests prayer for healing.

254. A sister in Iowa desires our prayers that she may be restored to health.