Until
recent years Mohammedan women were uniformly veiled and subject to their husbands, and in many cases were treated as chattels, as they still are in most primitive civilizations.
We
read in the Bible that Solomon prayed for an understanding heart, and that his prayer was answered in the following words: "Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart.
WE
hear much today about shelters being constructed in the war zone for the safety of the people living in those countries, and we are truly grateful for this splendid work, but material shelters are not infallible, for when a bomb strikes on the top of them they go to pieces.
To
pray is a natural instinct with many, and when circumstances seem too hard for men to handle they turn to whatever is their concept of power and cry, "Lord, save us.
There
is perhaps no incident in the Bible where the immediate spiritual needs of the individual were seen to be more quickly and satisfactorily met than in the case of the Ethiopian eunuch, as recorded in the eighth chapter of Acts.
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Pruyn Francis Sarber
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with contributions from Anna M. Peters, Jean Page Wharton, Charles William Morse, Morris J. Weber, Alberta C. Williams, Henry J. F. Coe, Dorothy Randall, Mary Elliott Washburn