Article September 16, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from R. J. Campbell, Charles W. Gilkey, E. L. M. Gould

[British Congregationalist.]

Many of our readers must have been oppressed by a sense of helplessness in the labor troubles that have threatened and still threaten national peace. The whole church of Christ in this land seems negligible. Men do not seek her counsel; they would resent any attempt on her part to intervene. At times like this we discover how far the church is from being "the moral guide of society." In such helplessness it may seem mockery to call men to pray; and the call may be misinterpreted.

We can have no sympathy, for example, with those who consider prayer the only duty of the believer, as though it were an alternative to other activities. . . . Still less can we praise the idle plea that prayer is easier and costs less than other duties. The church cannot dismiss the social problems of the day with the offer to pray. Few would urge this in so many words; at the back of many minds there is this delusion, that our contribution is that of prayer, while others must do everything else.

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