22 says, no prayers are answered except by man. In the last analysis liberalistic worship is the worship of man, or of humanity, under the guise of the wor ship of God. “ The non-human world is unworthy of our worship,” says Bert rand Russell, indicating that he with many others has made humanity his god. But is man worthy of worship? Is it reasonable that he place himself on the pedestal, “ standing erect in the pride of his power,” and worshiping himself? Is not man, in fact, the most needy creature? Is not man’s self worship a striking proof of his deep fall and of his blindness in things spiritual? What excuse is there in our enlightened land for the idolatrous worship of hu manity?— How exceedingly small is man when he consents to become the object of worship. Deny the existence of a personal, Al mighty God and there can be only idol atrous worship, degrading in its effects and unworthy of intelligent people. aSs PRAY THE NEW YEAR IN. The Great Commission Prayer League calls upon all churches to bring in the New Year with prayer. We urge all our readers to join with the thousands of members of the Prayer League in praying especially for the following things which surely must be upon the heart of God: 1. World-wide revival in the body of Christ. 2 . World-wide evangelization outside the body of Christ, including very especially God’s people Israel. 3. The building up of the body ol Christ, individually and collective ly; praying especially for all pas tors and missionaries and evangel ists and teachers of the Word, and for all evangelical leaders. 4. A Church-wide realization of the death and resurrection of Christ as the effectual basis, in and through
T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S the Spirit, of all prevailing inter cession. 5. The completion of the body and the soon coming of our Lord. (See the following Scriptures: Acts 2: 39; Mark 16:15; 2 Pet. 3:9; Romans 1:16; 10:1; Eph. 3:14-21; 4:11-16; Heb. 10:1-22; Acts 1:11; Rev. 22:20) The foregoing we believe constitutes as it were, in part at least, God’s “ Prayer List” for the body of Christ as a whole. Is it yours? gfe? as PLACID PRAYER “ The trouble with' most Christians today is not that they do not believe in prayer, but that they don’t really pray. Get a dozen members of the Church to gether anywh°re and ask them how many believe in prayer. They all do, of course. But then ask them how many pray with regularity and real dead-in-earnest persistence. Not one in a hundred will dare lay claim to any such practice. That is why so many speak of ‘saying their prayers.’ As a matter of fact, with a vast multitude; that is as far as it goes. They do say them, regularly and brieflly, but they do not put themselves into the prayers. Talk about wrestling with God until the break of day! It would be the height of exaggeration to call our so- called communion with God by any such athletic name, and if we did really go at it in any such way, the majority of us would be toppled over in the first fifteen minutes. When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, the records say that He sweat blood, so terrible was His intensity. Few of us can lay claim to becoming, so in earnest in pleading with God that we sweat plain, ordinary perspiration. We ask and we receive not, because we ask— too placidly.”—- Andrew Gillies.
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