Article February 25, 1939 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Prayer and Love

with contributions from Lynn Landrum, W. B. Selbie, Albert Buckner Coe, G. E. Griffiths, George Matthew Adams, Sumner Welles, Thomas Hastwell, H. J. Powell

[Lynn Landrum, in the Dallas Morning News, Texas]

Prayer can no more be defined than love or light or life be caught and put into a bottle. But this we know, that prayer is meditation reaching out reverently for the hem of God's garment in the hope of finding there mercy for our shortcomings and healing for the ills that vex and thwart and scar our souls. In that sense, all men ought to pray. . . .

What is the ultimate evil of war? Is it not the hatred back of bayonet and bomb, rather than the wreckage wrought? Is it not the ill will between race and race, rather than the clash of physical force which is the product and the expression of that ill will?

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