from the lions; the blind man, his sight; and the Church, St. Peter's deliverance from prison and death. When we pray, God in some manner obeys our will, as He obeyed that of Josue when by his prayer he commanded the sun to stand still: "The Lord," says Scripture, "obeying the voice of a man" (Jos. X, 14).
Prayer is, as the Wise Man says, "a shield wherewith to oppose the divine wrath." God is almighty; and yet to this question of the Psalmist, "Thou art terrible, O God, and who shall resist Thee?" (Ps. lxxv. 8) we can answer: Prayer!" because prayer also is almighty, and in some sense capable of overcoming God Himself. We have a most remarkable example of this in Moses. Holy Scripture thus relates the fact: "The people, seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount [Sinai], gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us; for, as to this Moses, we know not what has befallen him. And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron. And when he had received them, he made of them a molten calf;
