Where are we ? Follow me through the Moslem cities in the. Northern part of the Sudan. Follow me on the wings of thought and imagination. The night still covers the land. It is an hour before daybreak. The cold chill morning breeze blows southward from the desert. Listen — “¢ Allahu akbay. Rise, ye believers! Prayer is better than sleep. Prayer is better than sleep.”

And out of mud huts, out of grass hovels and stone houses you see them gvather—gather to prayer—the followers of the false prophet.

Leave them in their mosque, and hasten back with me to the home lands. Here, too, people are waking. Theyare waking to their daily work, waking to toil, waking to gather gold, waking to careful systematic study, waking to pleasure.

Surely the commandment for the Christian is ““Seek*-ye first “money, knowledge, pleasure, food and fame, and the Kingdom of God shall be added unto you.”

Oh, the bitter, bitter shame that those who name themselves after the name of the Lord Christ should live such lives.

Would to God that we might hear one of these mornings from every Church or Chapel tower the call ring out with the voice of thunder, ‘‘ Rise, ye believers,— ye Christian believers,—prayer is better than sleep. Prayer is better than sleep.”

i x x Awake thou that sleepest.

Arise and shine.

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