Article October 31, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Ernest F. Champness, H. J. Trueman

[Ernest F. Champness, in the Christian Advocate, San Francisco, California]

Prayer is part of the great adventure of life. It is useless for men to urge that such an attitude (the attitude of the one who prays) is superstitious, or that it is merely a relic of the past. To those who have felt the power and healing of prayer, the peace of prayer, such accusations seem to be the result of spiritual ignorance. It is like a man with no appreciation of color saying that a picture by Turner is little more than a daub of paint, or a man with no sense of music criticizing Beethoven. On this subject there is, and must be, a real gap in formal thought between the man who prays and one who does not. It is a gap which no argument can, or ought, to bridge. One thing only can make a man truly believe in prayer, and that is prayer itself.

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