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 A Call to Prayer 
 
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 MRS. A. M. BACON 
 
 
 
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 A CALL TO PRAYER 
 
 Mrs. A. M. Bacon 
 
 It is characteristic of Mrs. Bacon that one of 
 the last things she did for the work she had 
 served forty-five years was to write the following 
 appeal for prayer. 
 
 At our fortieth anniversary celebration at 
 Indianapolis, we held an informal discussion on 
 how to find more missionaries. “Educate our 
 young women in Missions,” said one with 
 eloquent appeal. Suddenly Mrs. Bacon arose in 
 her place and cut the discussion short by repeat- 
 ing with slow distinctness, “Pray ye therefore 
 the Lord of the harvest, that he would send 
 forth laborers into his harvest.” 
 
 Prayer was to her the weapon of the church 
 and so when on February 4, 1916 she passed over 
 the river, she left us her mantle of prayer; ane 
 greatest legacy she had to bequeath. 
 
 —Mary E. Adkins 
 
 a HE Prayer League Covenant. 
 is What is it? Why sign it? It is 
 a declaration of fealty to the 
 Woman’s American Baptist Foreign 
 Mission Society. Nay more, it is an 
 expression of fellowship with Him in 
 His redemptive work, who ever liveth 
 to make intercession for us. It is simply 
 _ pledging to bring blessings by intercessory 
 prayer to those who are holding the 
 ropes, to stimuate sacrificial giving and 
 
to uplift and save the darkened lives of 
 Orientals. Prayer is the gateway to the 
 presence chamber of the King, who is 
 waiting to bestow untold blessings. By 
 signing the pledge you are aligning your- 
 self with the great company who 
 devoutedly pray “Thy Kingdom Come. ” 
 
 Our President, Mrs: Montgomery, 
 has each signed name recorded in a 
 book so that she can send special sub- 
 jects for prayer. ‘This centralizes the 
 work, and the whole company are drawn 
 close to the leaders, from whom wireless 
 _ messages may be received in the homes 
 far and near. This fellowship of work 
 and intercession is blessed, but let us not 
 forget the four-and-twenty golden vials 
 ~ full of odors, which are the prayers of 
 the saints, seen by the revelator. 
 
 By this compact your prayers will 
 become more definite, more intelligent, 
 more earnest, more unselfish. It will 
 beget habits of reading and inquiry as to 
 the great and crying needs in Non- 
 Christian lands. No better outlook on 
 the foreign field today can be found than 
 
that given in “The King’s Highway.” 
 You will also find “Missions” indispen- 
 
 sable. 
 
 Blank pledges to be signed may be 
 ordered from the Home Administration 
 Department of the Woman's American 
 Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 450 E. 
 30th Street, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 
 
 Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 
 Publication Dept., 450 E. 30th Street, Chicago, Il. 
 5M—4-16