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Carlton C. Buck
Anita Fletcher
Bertha H. Pentney
Lorraine Coffman Austin
NOTES on Christian Endeavor
II. PRAYER, A RESPONSE. Prayer is a natural response to God. In Matthew 9:27-29, we find two blind men following Jesus. When He asked them whether they believed He was able to heal them, they said, “Yea, Lord.” That ability, consecration, and faith which says, “Yes, Lord,” is the source of power in a Christian’s life. Our prayer is a natural response to God’s goodness. His power is the su
JANUARY 2, 1944 PRAYER IN THESE TIMES M atthew 9 : 27 - 29 ; 18 : 19 , 20 By Carlton C. Buck Introduction Our topic tor this week carries an implication about the times in which we live. No one will deny that these are difficult days that try men’s souls. Happy is the one who knows the sus taining power of prayer. Too often we think of the prayer power of the saints of yesterday, but the difficult times we are living in today. We find our solution when we bring the prayer and the times together. Our Lord is still a prayer-answering God. He is “the same yesterday, today and forever.” There is no better way to begin the new year than with prayer. Begin the year with God and resolve to make Him preeminent throughout all the coming days. For Those Who Have Topics I. PRAYER, AN ESSENTIAL. In these days of priorities and ra tioning, the essential comes first. Non- essentials are finding their secondary place or are being discarded entirely. Prayer is an esesential. Prayer is the sunshine vitamin of the soul. It makes us grow spiritually. Without it, Chris tian life totters; struggles, and fails. Prayer brings strength for living. There is plenty of unused power in the uni verse, Prayer taps that great reservoir of power and brings a part of it to a focal point in our midst In the rush of the hour, in the press of dutieis, in the strain of the times, there may be a tendency to push prayer into the place of secondary im portance. Don’t do it. Prayer is not a luxury. Jesus said, "without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5).
pernatural response to our faith. “Thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” (Matt. 6:6). III. PRAYER, AN ATMOSPHERE. “Where two or three are gathered together” in the name of Christ; an atmosphere is created. This atmos-- phere is right for the presence of the Master (Matt. 18:20). Light and dark ness do not mix. Darkness reigns only
The Writers
January 2—CARLTON C. BUCK
Mr. Buck is pastor of the First Christian Church, Orange, _Calif. He has served as dean of the Santa Barbara-Ventura C. E. Conference, and has been a frequent teacher at the C. E. Conferences held at Tahquitz Pines and Mt. Hermon, Calif. Miss Pentney is a member of the faculty of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles, and faculty sponsor for the Biola Evening School Gospel Team. Mrs. Austin (Biola ’34) sponsors the high-school Christian Endeavor Society of Calvary Church, Santa Ana, Calif., where she is assistant Sunday-school-superintendent and teacher of the college department. Mr. Hetrick (Biola ’37) is a staff mejnber of the Young Life Campaign in the northwest and has been actively engaged in reaching high-school students for Christ in the Pacific Northwest. Miss Fletcher has been for fifteen years a teacher of Euodia clubs and Eteri clubs sponsored by the Bible Women’s Department of the Bible institute of Los An geles. She is now teaching the Eteri group of Burbank, Calif.
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January 9—BERTHA H. PENTNEY
January 16—LORRAINE COFFMAN AUSTIN
January 23—RALPH M. HETRICK
January 30—ANITA FLETCHER
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