Prayer as Propaganda

Zions Herald, 118-year-old Methodist weekly, last week ably stated the case against praying to be seen of men:

"A few days ago, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, a group of Massachusetts women posed for a news photographer in kneeling posture [as they] prayed publicly for the defeat of the Lend-Lease Bill. . . . What was the manifest purpose of this prayer meeting? Publicity, propaganda. ... It is high time that the church protested against the use of prayer as propaganda. If any man or woman believes in God and in prayer and is convinced by his conscience that the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill would constitute a calamity to the human race, let him use prayer in legitimate fashion and take his problem to the throne of grace in secret behind closed doors. Possibly God may reward him openly. ... It is not good for religion, it is not good for the nation, it is not good for any cause to have prayer degraded into an instrument of publicity."

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