There were the gatherings in the public squares, there were the fireworks, the transparencies, the trees of liberty and the shouts of the jubilee, but the churches and the schools were the chief scenes, and hymns and prayer the chief language of this great ovation.

Three young men I saw some time ago taken from this place in chainswhile the mother of one of them, old and decrepid, followed with tears and prayers her son, 18 or 20 miles, and bid him a final farewell!

A million families have fitted out their volunteers with the most sumptuous of all equipments, which no Government could furnish, love, tears of anxiety and pride, last kisses and farewells, and prayers more heaven-cleaving than a time of peace can breathe.

Or what should prayer deck with herbs and spice, why.

"Mr. Lurton, what a sublime prayer the Pater-noster is!"

Is not prayer our resource only when all others have failed us?

This answer to prayer the promised result of faith in Him.

I was sayin' me prayers up-stairs before goin' to bed.

* PRAYERS ANSWERED IN BUSINESS AND SOCIAL ANXIETIES.

A daily service was instituted in the Mosque itself, and the heaven-sent command to prayer five times a day for every Muslim was enforced.

If that dream were not true, all dreams were lies and prayer a useless ceremony.