The weapon of prayer

Daily Reading for September 5

Prayer is, I believe the best test of the whole matter. If it is right and our honest duty to fight the war [World War I] to a finish, then we should use the Church’s great weapon of prayer to that end; but the most ardent Christian supporter of the war, though he may use general terms, revolts against praying that our every bullet may find its mark, or that our embargoes may bring starvation to every German home. We know that those things would bring the war to a speedy, triumphant close, but the Church cannot pray that way. And a purpose that you cannot pray for is a poor one for Christians to be engaged in.

From a statement by Bishop Paul Jones to the House of Bishops, quoted in A Year With American Saints by G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber. Copyright © 2006. Used by permission of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY. www.churchpublishing.org

Posted by Vicki K. Black on September 5, 2007 4:00 AM | |
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The good bishop could have added to his list the crushing post-war reparations which John Maynard Keynes so tellingly predicted would lead to another war. See his "Economic Consequences of the Peace."
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace.htm

Posted by John B. Chilton [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 5, 2007 1:22 PM

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