Noon-Hour Prayer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 5, 1914

"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 text for the following words of comfort and courage is found in Ps. 55:22:—

"Child of my love, lean hard, And let me feel the pressure of thy care. I knew thy burden, child, I shaped it; Poised it in mine own hand; made no proportion In its weight to thine unaided strength. For even as I laid it on, I said, 'I shall be near, and while he leans on me, This burden shall be mine, not his; So shall I keep my child within the circling arms Of mine own love.' Here lay it down, nor fear To impose it on a shoulder which upholds The government of worlds. Yet closer come: Thou art not near enough. I would embrace thy care, So I might feel my child reposing on my breast. Thou lovest me: I knew it! Doubt not then: But, loving me, lean hard."

Requests for Prayer

7. A sister in Oregon, afflicted with an incurable disease, desires prayer for healing.

8. An aged, afflicted New York sister, who is homeless and obliged to work for food and shelter, is losing her eyesight. She begs us to plead with God earnestly in her behalf.

9. From Wisconsin a friend writes asking prayer for her father, brother, and a cousin, who are under the curse of drink.

10. A sister in the State of Washington, with five children, whose husband is an unbeliever, desires prayer that God will bless her in her isolation, giving her physical strength and spiritual power to train her children for him.

11. A Texas sister, unable to walk, desires prayer for healing.