Article November 16, 1946 Issue

Signs of the Times

Prayer Can Solve World Problems

with contributions from O. A. Geiseman, M. Jane Scott, Frank E. Dubby, C. Clifford Bacon, B. J. Morris

O. A. Geiseman American Lutheran, New York, New York

Recently a newspaper columnist complained that he as an individual could not take in with his limited mind the problems of the world. The most he could do was to try his best in the little world in which he lived from day to day. Such an attitude is understandable from a certain point of view.

Surely it must be admitted that we are not all students of world problems with the statesman's grasp of world situations of the power directly and personally to do something effective about the political confusion in China or the economic problems of Europe, and the like. It would be a mistake, however, to conclude from this that we have no individual responsibility for the weal or woe of humanity as such. Jesus had quite another view. It embraced the whole world.... He provided us with the means whereby the humblest among us can do something toward achieving the solution of the most complicated problems in the most remote parts of the world. This is the means of prayer.

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