Let us Pray. 
IN the long, long ago, the Greeks were accounted 
the wisest people living on the earth. And 
certainly they said some very wise things. Here 
is one of them : Man is the * up-looking one.* *' 
By that they meant, that man feels there is a Higher 
Power than himself, and to Him he looks up and 
prays. I was reminded of that saying again and 
again when I lived amongst the people in the Oron 
bush country. And you will not wonder when I 
give you examples of incidents that brought it so 
often to my mind. I had lived in West Africa 
quite a long time before I got the chance to inspect 
every nook and cranny of a native com- 
pound, or dwelling-house. When it came I 
found hidden right away from prying eyes 
a little room with some upright sticks fas- 
tened in the floor, and with clots of mud at the 
other end, and these were — praying sticks ! Near 
to Arsibong Town, our first mission station in 
Nigeria, was a little fishing village called Aqua 
Obio. I did not see quite so much of these vil- 
lagers because they held aloof from a good deal 
of the life and activities of the Arsibong people. 
But one day my interest was very much quickened 
because of something unusual that happened. At 
the entrance to their village, just on the boundary 
of their parish, was a very large tree. Round it, 
both the men and women were gathered, hold- 
