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according to Thy AMEN Angelo Patri beauty beseech Thee Bishop bless Thee Brooke Foss Westcott cheer Christ our Lord Church clean courage desire divine Donald Wheeler duty earth Eternal Evangeline Booth evil faith fear Forgive friends fulness Gerhard Tersteegen give us grace grant Guide Harry Emerson Fosdick hearts Heavenly Father Henry van Dyke honor Horace Holley Jesus Christ keep Lawrenceville School lives LMIGHTY love Thee Master mind mountains ourselves pastor peace praise pray Thee prayer Princeton Theological Seminary rejoice righteousness serve Thee sins souls strength strengthen task Teach temptations thank Thee Thine things Thou art Thou dost Thou hast given Thou knowest Thou wilt thoughts Thy blessing Thy children Thy dear Thy grace Thy Holy Spirit Thy law Thy love Thy name Thy presence Thy Spirit Thy truth Thy Word Thyself trust in Thee unto Thee Walter Rauschenbusch weak William Aitken wisdom worthy
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Page 155 - Lord bless us, and keep us. The Lord make his face to shine upon us, and be gracious unto us. The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us, and give us peace, now and for evermore.
Page 152 - God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Page 6 - States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field ; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Page 152 - God, from Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments...
Page 133 - Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Page 6 - I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in his holy protection ; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government ; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large...
Page 133 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
Page 65 - God who created me Nimble and light of limb, In three elements free, To run, to ride, to swim: Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him : Take the thanks of a boy.
Page 39 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Page 4 - ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting.