The ether is the medium not only of light, electric and other
force-vibrations, but of thought-vibrations also. The two
souls at the ends of the two thousand miles of distance are
something like two wireless telegraphic stations. One sends
up its cry for help, its prayer-vibration, into the ether;
the whole celestial hemisphere quivers with that cry, that
soul-vibration. The soul of the friend at this end of the line,
being sympathetic, or keyed in unison, picks out of the ether
its own; it hears and reads the cry of the beloved soul yonder,
and sends back, through the ether, its answer of comforting
thought and suggestion. Now, grant that that sort of thing is
a fact in human experience, and we have what is very nearly a
demonstration of the possibility and nature of prayer. If two
human souls can hear and answer each other irrespective of
space and time, then the human soul and the divine soul can do
likewise. We have only to think God immanent in the universal
ether, filling it as a soul fills the body, and our case is
complete.--JAMES H. ECOB.
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=Prayer-meeting Maintained=--See IMMIGRATION.
=Prayer Only in Name=--See DIPLOMACY, COWARDLY.
=Prayer, Power of=--See PERSECUTION AND PRAYER.