Appreciating one hundred years of spiritual insight and healing In January we began a series in appreciation of the Journal's contribution to the twentieth century. This month we reprint an article and a testimony from the period 1981-1990. Among the most significant events of the decade were steps toward greater freedom and world peace. Before the decade closed, the world witnessed free elections in Poland and Nicaragua, restoration of democracy in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Nelson Mandela's release from prison. A few years later, there was generally peaceful democratic reform in South Africa and Russia, where violent conflict had been predicted. The article we've selected discusses the vital role of prayer in destroying the evils that work against humanity's well-being and progress.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25
About eleven years ago, not long before riots swept through Soweto, the black township that has become synonymous with South Africa's racial struggles, my wife and I received a letter from friends in Johannesburg. They had recently returned to their homeland after living briefly in the United States.
Before they had left the US, we had talked at length about racial conditions in their country and in ours, with mutual hope and concern. Our correspondence since then, though, had been mostly of family news. But at the close of this letter there was an unforgettable request. "Please pray for our country," they said.
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