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 A Week of Prayer for 
 Flisstons Abroad 
 
 Pee Ot OA Drill 29351905 
 
 
 
 OR the last two years, at about this sea- 
 son, Christian peoplein the United States 
 and Canada have united in a week of spe- 
 cial Prayer for Missions abroad. The 
 custom has proved so helpful that the Annual 
 Conference of the Foreign Missions Boards in 
 the United States and Canada, meeting in New 
 York in January, decided to repeat the request 
 for these united intercessions during the week 
 beginning April 16 and closing April 23, 1905. 
 
 The period selected is that which commem- 
 orates the Redeeming Death and Glorious 
 Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It will 
 be apparent to every one how appropriate it is 
 to use these days for offering prayersand gifts, 
 that the message of love revealed in the Incar- 
 nation of our Lord, and the message of life 
 revealed in His Resurrection, may be fully pro- 
 claimed throughout the world for which He died. 
 
 For the more helpful observance of the week 
 it is suggested that the topics included in the 
 Common Daily Prayer be used in connection 
 with the subject given for each day in the 
 Prayer Cycle on pages 2 and 3, and it is hoped 
 that this spirit of prayer may be carried into 
 daily or midweek church services, and be given 
 expression at parlor or neighborhood meetings 
 in private houses on one or more evenings, at 
 family prayers and in daily private devotions, | 
 
Prayer Cyele 
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 The Evangelization of the World 
 
 Total population of the World, estimated, 1,500,000,000. Nom- 
 
 inal Christians, 500,000,000, Non-Christians, 1,000,000,000. 
 Native Christians—Protestant adherents in’ non-Christian 
 countries and tribes, 4,514,592. Protestant Missionaries, 18,164. 
 Native workers, 78,350. Students in Christian schools, 1,051,466. 
 
 For Missionaries; for the Native 
 Churches; for all inquirersand catechu- 
 mens; for greater faith in God, for the 
 establishment everywhere of Christian 
 homes and the Christian Church, and the 
 preaching of the Gospel to every creature. 
 
 For Reinforcements — native and 
 foreign—men and women of prayer and 
 purpose, constrained by the love of Christ, 
 of good judgment and humility, who can- 
 not but speak the things they have seen 
 and heard. 
 
 The Empires of Eastern Asia—Japan, 
 China, Korea, Thibetand Siam. For the 
 cessation of war and the decay of distrust; 
 for friendship; for continued progress; 
 for openness of mind and heart on the 
 part of Confucianist and Buddhist toward 
 the Gospel. 
 
 Central and Western Asia—India, 
 Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, Arabia. For 
 religious liberty; for the elevation of 
 
 woman; for freedom from famine; for 
 
 the conversion of the Hindu and the 
 Mohammedans. 
 
Prayer Cyele 
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 The Continent of Africa.—For the 
 extinction of the slave trade and the 
 liquor traffic; for peace; for justice in 
 the Congo Free State; for the evangel- 
 ization of the Soudan, and all unreached 
 tribes. 
 
 The Countries at Our Door—Mexico 
 and Central and South America. For the 
 spread of purity of doctrine and of life; 
 for the unreached Indians; for political 
 righteousness and stability. 
 
 The Islands of the Sea—the Philip- 
 pines, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, the 
 South Seas, Madagascar. For the purifi- 
 cation of American influence from all vice 
 and irreligion; for confidence and service, 
 Ore lUsticewanaepeacc10r the, end-of 
 slavery and impurity, and the triumph of 
 Christianity. ; 
 
 The Church at Home.—For ministers 
 and people; for forgiveness for lethargy 
 and indifference; for more prayer and 
 more faith in God’s desire to hear and 
 answer prayer; for more love and obedi- 
 ence; that every member of the body of * 
 Christ may have the mind of Christ re- 
 garding foreign missions and, abounding 
 in the grace of giving, may yield prompt 
 obedience to the command of our risen 
 Lord. 
 
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 Praise 
 
 Fortheunspeakable gift of God’s love; forthe 
 share He gives us in His work; for those He 
 has delivered from the power of darkness and 
 translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. 
 
 Common Dailp Praper 
 
 For an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 For a realization of the need of the non- 
 Christian world; its helplessness, its poverty, 
 its materialism, lust and superstition ; the inade- 
 quacy of its religions; its spiritual hopelessness. 
 
 For a truer conception of the mission of the 
 Church; for more consecration and sacrifice; 
 for a full surrender to the leadership of Christ; 
 and that the Lord of the harvest will thrust 
 forth laborers into His harvest. 
 
 For the missionaries, that they may be kept 
 in health of body and mind; that they may 
 have a continual sense of Christ’s presence, 
 and may have greater access to the hearts of 
 the people. 
 
 For the native Church, that it may grow in 
 faith and fruitfulness, in love and service; for 
 more native workers. 
 
 For the elevation of woman. 
 
 For religious liberty and peace. 
 
 For the evangelization of the whole world 
 and the establishment of the Kingdom of Christ. 
 
 “*That they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus 
 Christ whom Thou hast sent.”’