Sincere prayer is appropriate any place or time

To the editor:

I would like to respond to the person who objected in Speak Out to a picture in the Southeast Missourian of a woman in a bar folding her hands in prayer for our nation in this war situation. I want to compliment the editor for including this picture in the paper.

The person who criticized this is forgetting that a person can and should pray everywhere. The Holy Scriptures state, "I would, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without fear and doubting."

Yes, a person can pray anywhere so long as the prayer is sincere and in the right frame of mind.

In this vein of thought, I would also compliment Thomas Eagleton's recent column on prayer.

LEONARD A. KUEHNERT

Altenburg, Mo.