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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 9
Evangelical Alliance
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Evangelical Alliance.
Invitation for Week of Prayer throughout the World, January 7-14, 1872. The following topics are suggested as suitable for exhortation and prayer on the successive days of meeting:—
page 20- Sunday, January 7.—Sermons: Subject—The Faith once delivered to the Saints, a universal and everlasting bond of union in the Christian Church. The duty of its defence and extension binding on all believers.
- Monday, January 8.—Thanksgiving—God's "unspeakable gifts;" for Mercies personal and relative; for National Mercies; for the maintenance and restoration of Peace and for preservation from Famine, and other National Calamities; for Mercies to the Christain Church; for the progress of Christ's Kingdom, and the usefulness of the Christian Ministry.
- Tuesday, January 9.—Humiliation—For personal and national sins, weakness of faith, disbedience and worldliness in the Church. Acknowledgment of Divine Judgments, confession of unfaithfulness, and prayer for the Revival of Religion as in past times.
- Wednesday, January 10.—Prayer (intercessory)—For Families; for the sons and daughters of Christian parents at home and in other lands; also for those at school, at colleges and universities; and for all entering upon commercial or professional duties: for the increase of spiritual life in those who confess Christ; for the conversion of the unconverted; and for the sanctifying of affliction both to Parents and Children.
- Thursday, January 11.—Prayer (intercessory)—For Kings and all in authority; for Nations, especially those recently visited with the calamities of war; for the prevalence of peace in the counsels of Statesmen; for righteousness, harmony and goodwill among all classes; for the spread of sound knowledge, and for God's blessing upon special efforts to resist the progress of infidelity, superstition, intemperance, and other kinds of immorality.
- Friday, January 12.—Prayer (intercessory)—For the Christian Church; for Bishops, Presbyters, Pastors, and Missionaries; for translators of the Holy Scriptures into various tongues; for Office-bearers, and for Committees, Societies, and Authors engaged in Christian work.
- Saturday, January 13.—Prayer—For a larger outpouring of the Holy Spirit; for the increase of Christian love and holy zeal, and the union of believers in prayer and effort for God's Glory.
- Sunday, January 14.—Sermons—"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven."—Matt. vi. 10.
Suggestions to Christians in all Countries for a Continuous Concert of Daily, Private, or Family Prayer.
- Sunday.—Sabbath Schools (assumed there are at least throughout the World 1,000,000 Sunday School Teachers).
- Monday.—Christian Missions.
- Tuesday.—Bible Societies.
- Wednesday.—Abolition of Slavery—and Intemperance.
- Thursday.—Tract Societies.
- Friday.—Outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all mankind.
- Saturday.—Ministers of the Gospel (supposed to be about 90,000.)
| Protestants | 89,000,000 |
| Roman Catholics | 170,000,000 |
| Greek Church | 76,000,000 |
| Jews | 5,000,000 |
| Mohammedans | 160,000,000 |
| Heathen | 788,000,000 |
| Total | 1,288,000,000 |
The Subjects of Prayer mentioned above, might be copied on the blank leaf of the Bible for daily reference.