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                                  Prayers Written At Vailima 



                                     SUNDAY 



     WE     beseech     Thee;   Lord;   to  behold    us   with   favour;   folk   of  many 

families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof; weak men 

and   women   subsisting   under   the   covert   of   thy  patience。   Be   patient   still; 

suffer us yet awhile longer; … with our broken purposes of good; with our 

idle endeavours against evil; suffer us awhile longer to endure; and (if it 

may be) help us to do better。 Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the 

day   come   when   these   must   be   taken;   brace   us   to   play   the   man   under 

affliction。 Be with our friends; be with ourselves。 Go with each of us to 

rest; if any awake; temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when 

the day returns; return to us; our sun and comforter; and call us up with 

morning   faces   and   with   morning   hearts   …   eager   to   labour   …   eager   to   be 

happy;   if   happiness   shall   be   our   portion   …   and   if   the   day   be   marked   for 

sorrow; strong to endure it。 

     We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of him to whom this 

day is sacred; close our oblation。 



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                                Prayers Written At Vailima 



                      FOR SELF…BLAME 



     LORD; enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye; and blind 

us to the mote   that is in our brother's。 Let us feel our offences with our 

hands;   make   them   great   and   bright   before   us   like   the   sun;   make   us   eat 

them and drink them for our diet。 Blind us to the offences of our beloved; 

cleanse them from our memories; take them out of our mouths for ever。 

Let all here before Thee carry and measure with the false balances of love; 

and be in their own eyes and in all conjunctures the most guilty。 Help us at 

the same time with the grace of courage; that we be none of us cast down 

when   we  sit   lamenting  amid   the   ruins of   our happiness   or our   integrity: 

touch us with fire from the altar; that we may be up and doing to rebuild 

our city: in the name and by the method of him in whose words of prayer 

we now conclude。 



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                                  Prayers Written At Vailima 



         FOR SELF…FORGETFULNESS 



     LORD;      the   creatures   of   thy   hand;  thy   disinherited    children;   come 

before   Thee   with   their   incoherent   wishes   and   regrets:   Children   we   are; 

children   we   shall   be;   till   our   mother   the   earth   hath   fed   upon   our   bones。 

Accept us; correct us; guide us; thy guilty innocents。 Dry our vain tears; 

wipe out our vain resentments; help our yet vainer efforts。 If there be any 

here; sulking as   children will;  deal with and   enlighten him。  Make it   day 

about that   person; so that he   shall see himself   and be   ashamed。  Make   it 

heaven about him; Lord; by the only way to heaven; forgetfulness of self; 

and make it day about his neighbours; so that they shall help; not hinder 

him。 



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                               Prayers Written At Vailima 



               FOR RENEWAL OF JOY 



    WE are evil; O God; and help us to see it and amend。 We are good; and 

help us to be better。 Look down upon thy servants with a patient eye; even 

as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down; call upon the dry bones; quicken; 

enliven; recreate in us the soul of service; the spirit of peace; renew in us 

the sense of joy。 



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