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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 48

A Prayer

A Prayer.

Great Power, whom we here acknowledge as the Highest, Humanity, whose children and servants we are; from whom we derive everything, and to whom we are bound to render everything; may we all seek to know thee better that we may love and serve thee better; and to this end may our affections become more pure, true, and deep, our thought larger and more vigorous, our action firmer and more energetic, that so, according to our measure, in our generation, we may hasten the time when thou shalt, visibly to all, take to thee thy great power and reign; when all kindreds and nations, all the members of the human family now so torn by discord, shall, by the power of the unity of thy Past, place themselves under thy guidance, the living under the government of the dead, and bound together by mutual understanding and affection, each take their due part in the work of human advancement, in peaceful union moving forwards through the coming ages to a more and more perfect state, to thy glory and the common welfare of the countless page 6 generations of men and man's dependents who shall in succession possess this thy beautiful Planet, the Earth, which is thy home.

In communion with thee, in communion with thy Past, and with thy Future, may we keep this great aim ever in our sight, to strengthen and ennoble our whole life and work.—Amen.

Holy and Glorious Humanity, on this thy High Day, at the beginning of a new year, we are met in praise, in prayer, in thanksgiving, to celebrate thy coming, in the fulness of time, for the visible perfecting of thy as yet unseen work.

Priest. We bow before thee in thankfulness;

People. AS children of thy Past.

Priest. We adore thee in hope;

People. AS thy ministers and stewards for the Future.

Priest. We would commune with thee humbly in prayer;

People. As thy servants in the Present.

All. May our worship, as our lives, grow more and more worthy of thy great name.