Article October 2, 1948 Issue

Signs of the Times

Talking with God

with contributions from Norman Vincent Peale, Edmund H. Babbitt, L. W. B. Broughall, Charles Orrin Ransford, G. Musgrave

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in a column in the Risingsun Unique, Ohio

A manufacturer who conducts a small but very successful business in the Midwest tells me that his success in business dates from the day he really learned to pray. Living several miles from his plant, it was his habit to drive back and forth each day, always driving alone so that he could think without interruption. On the way to the plant he would mull over his problems.

"I guess I always prayed," he said, "but from what I know now, I guess I just did not know how to pray. Whenever a difficult problem came up in my business, I would go into my office and pray about it rather frantically. Even so I got a lot of good answers, but one day quite by accident I discovered a new way of praying that revolutionized my personal life and my business, I was driving over to the plant one morning with the realization that some difficult problems were coming up that day. I did not know what these problems were in detail, but I began to pray about them in advance, asking that I would have wisdom when the problems were laid before me. I arrived at my office feeling refreshed, quiet, and strangely confident, and I had one of my best days.

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