“Lord, when we pray, ‘thy kingdom come!’
Then fold our hands without a care
For souls whom thou hast died to save,
We do but mock thee with our prayer.
“Thou couldst have sent an angel band
To call thine erring children home;
And thus through heavenly ministries
On earth thy kingdom might have come.
“But since to human hands like ours
Thou hast committed work divine,
Shall not our eager hearts make haste
To join their feeble powers with thine?”
We are taught to pray for others. This is one of life’s highest and plainest duties. St. Paul exhorts that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men. St. James exhorts us to pray one for another, adding that “the supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” Thus prayer is put down among the active, working forces of the world, one of the ways in which we can do good to others. It avails much in its working.
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