The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-21
CONVENTION PRAYER OF
REV. JOHN b. SHAW.
Trays for Deliyerance from Social
Impurity and Political
lNnrru Mt ION.

lmpurity and Politlcai
/, Corruption.
Associated Press Special.
| Chicago, June 21.-Rev. DR..
\ Shaw's prayer at the opening OF
i the convention today was as fol-
/ lows:
20 God, the supreme and SOW
erign Ruler of the universe, who
holdest sway alike over the lives
of men and the affairs of nations,
decreeing abiding success unto
| those alone who submit to my
] control and do Thy will, the Goa
whom our fathers loved and trust
ed. our own God also, not by in
heritance and tradition only, but
much more by choee and allie
glance, We acknowledge and adore
Thee as the kind eternal, immortal,
| invisible, the only wise God, whose
favor is life and whose loving kind
ness is better than life; we praise
Thee for Thy signal goodness In
times past to this our beloved
land; and, conscious of our pro-
found need Of Thee, We reyerently
invoke Thy gracious presence ana
benediotion upon our great re-
public.
eve confess before Thee at this
time our national sins as well as
those which we may have person
ally committed-ou forgetfulness
of Thee and Thy commandments
our inordinate love of the seen
and sordid, our passion for luxury
and our elevation of the temporal
into the place of honor and DO
minion
Forgive, this Thy people, most
merciful God, and in Thy great
love restore us unto Thy favor and
unto us the joys of Thy salvation
defending us by Thine almighty
power ard unfolding us by Thy
free spirit.
"Set righteousness in command,
we beseech Thee, throughout our
nation. Take from us all national
pride and self-conceit; all boastful-
ness of wealth and undue depend
ence upon the material. Grant us
deliyerance from war and intem-
perance, from strife and worldly
blindness, from commercial dishon-
esty, social impurity and political
corruption and cause the princi-
pies of Thy gospel to be establish
ed and become pregnant in all
our domain Confront us more
and more with our high respon-
sibility and enable us, in faithful
ness to the trust which Thou has
committed unto us. to be Thy con
sistent representative among the
nations of the earth. the agency
in Thy hands of bringing tb&
kingdoms of God into fulfHlHlen
in all the world. IsIq sdt
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