66 The noon hour is not identical in different countries or even in different States. But as each soul utters the noonday petition, he will know that many others in his part of the world are joining their prayers to his. And as the noon mark travels about the equator, the great earth will be girdled daily by this chain. of prayer.

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Of course, the Prayer League will mention definitely the cases of those requesting prayer and the objects desired, but its scope will not be limited to this. Its greatest object should be to draw near to the heart of Christ and to pray earnestly for the things he longs for most eagerly: the righting of the world's wrongs, the healing of the world's sorrows, the cleansing of the world's sin, the bringing of the world's wanderers to the feet of God-these are the things for which the Prayer League will petition heaven.

"Do not keep yourself from the blessings of this new movement because you feel you have not time to go alone at the noon hour for prayer. If it is no more than a moment, lift your heart to God, asking Him to bless the Christian Herald Family and to use it for bringing the world to Himself. Pray for a revival in your own heart; in your church; in your community; in your nation; throughout the world.

"Let January 14, 1914, witness the beginning of a vast prayer movement, whose ending only the omniscient Father can foresee."

Letters by hundreds began to pour in telling of all kinds of desires for blessing. Mothers wrote, asking prayers for the conversion of sons; wives for the conversion of husbands; earnest church workers for revival of religion in their communities; temperance workers for victories in the fight against the saloon; friends wrote asking prayers for restoration of sight and hearing, and for healing from many forms of disease and afflictions for themselves and friends; others

wrote asking prayers for reconciliation with friends estranged; mothers asking that they might hear from absent boys.

If the members of the Prayer League could step into the Bowery Mission meeting some Sunday morning, or the Brotherhood meeting in an evening, they would be thrilled and overwhelmed at the signs of interest these newly converted men take in the requests for prayer which are sent in from North and South, East and West. The whole movement is creating and strengthening a wonderful tie between all the members of the Christian Herald Family and these men and women who are being redeemed from lives of want and sin.

The interest in prayer created by the appearance of the weekly column in the Christian Herald has been most remarkable. At the time of writing there are over 12,000 members of the League; and the influence of this department upon the general readers of the paper has doubtless been most salutary.

In June of 1915 so many inquiries on the subject came in from non-members of the League, and members of the League who were non-subscribers to the paper, that the following paragraph appeared in the column:

"There has been some correspondence with friends who are members of the Prayer League, but are not yet members of the Christian Herald Family. In answer to the many inquiries which have been made we wish to say again that there are no requirements whatever for membership in the Prayer League. Any one, whether a subscriber to the Christian Herald or not, is at liberty to send in a request for prayer, or an acknowledgment of answered prayer. We trust that the many friends who have written in to ask us this

question will consider this a personal answer to their letters."

For some time past requests have been coming in at an average rate of 750 per week. Every request is carefully recorded at the Christian Herald office, and a classified list is sent each week to the Bowery Mission, and laid upon the Bible on the reading-desk every Sunday morning. It can be easily imagined what a large and prominent place this particular item occupies in the program, and in each service, and in the minds of the large crowd of men who fill the auditorium at every meeting.

Indeed, often, recently, the time of the Sunday morning service has been exclusively given up to the prayer exercise, and no one who has been present on such occasions has felt that the time was badly spent.

It has been my delightful privilege recently to read many hundreds of letters that have been received by the Christian Herald acknowledging God's goodness in answering prayer, and I have been simply overwhelmed not only by the multitude of the acknowledgments, but by the amazing variety of need that has been covered.

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Space forbids me even giving the names of the writers of these letters, they are so numerous. make a clear classification is difficult, if not impossible. All that I feel I can do is to give a few typical letters, taken almost at random from the great pile now in my possession.

PRAYERS FOR CONVERSIONS

Some months ago I wrote asking prayer for a brother. We are so rejoiced as he is most gloriously saved, and declares that he is now a servant of God."

"I want to acknowledge answer to prayer for my nephew. He is a youth sixteen years old, and I cannot be thankful enough that he has been brought to Christ. He 'hit the trail' at one of the Sunday revival meetings and is now working every night at a union revival meeting being held in our church, and has already brought some of his companions to the Saviour."

"Last week I wrote a request that you would pray for me that my health might be better, also that my two sons would find Christ. Last Saturday the younger son came home for a little while (he is a telegraph operator). When I was preparing supper he said: Mother, I made a start for Christ last night at a meeting.' Such a thrill of joy went through me and I could not thank my heavenly Father enough for having answered prayer."

"The Prayer League, with the blessing of our heavenly Father, has helped my dear boy and stopped him from drink and brought him to Jesus."

"When the Column of Answered Prayers first appeared in the Herald, I promised God that I would write the good news to the Christian Herald when my father accepted Christ. I have been praying for him ever since I became a Christian myself and during a recent revival in our town he was splendidly converted and is now working hard for his Saviour. I praise God for His answer to my prayer and I have consecrated my life anew to His service."

"Over three months ago I wrote asking your prayers for my son who had gone down to the depths, lost his

position, left wife and child. I have received a letter from one of our missions from my son saying he has been converted and for three months has been leading a consistent Christian life."

"Soon after a Prayer League was started, I sent a request for prayer for the salvation of a son and daughter. My daughter was saved last summer at a camp meeting, which brought great joy to my soul."

"I wish to acknowledge answer to prayer for my husband, his two daughters, and my two sisters. They were all converted at a recent evangelistic meeting."

"I wish to acknowledge answer to prayer for my son. Some time past I requested prayer for his conversion, and that he might quit the morphine and whiskey habit. He now goes to church and last Sunday joined the Men's Bible Class, and his physicians assure us that he is entirely rid of the other habit. He has been very fortunate of late in securing work."

"I praise God our prayers for my husband have been answered. He was saved last night."

"Some time ago I wrote you requesting your prayers for two of my sons. It is with a thankful heart that I write to tell you that our prayers are being answered, I believe. The one got an increase in wages which he sorely needed; the other son tells me that he has cut out drinking as he found that it was getting the best of him. 'Now I think that is wonderful, knowing what a hard drinker he was.'

Some time ago I sent in a request for prayer for the conversion of my husband and that he would be able to give up the drink habit of almost forty years' standing, but it had been getting the best of him the last ten years, and his family had a miserable time as a consequence. Shortly after sending in the request and respecting the prayers of an old Christian lady, he