The Essential Ingredient

We have a custom in our churches, and I believe it to be a good one, to hold prayer-day service the second Wednesday of March.  The intent was that one could not properly begin a season of planting without entering into the house of the Lord to beseech His blessing upon the labor.  Though most of our people no longer farm, the custom remains.  What is true in farming is true for any labor: we can begin only in the Name of our Lord. We are again to commence a new season of labor.  And certainly...