The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-06
ALL PErLES SAID
PRiERlSAME time
TRANSIT. JED INTOA THOUSAND
TONGIS, AND DISPATCHED
ARJND THE WORLD.

With the prayer around the
world" New Year was ushered in.
In tblsand tongues it was spoken
at wat night services in near and
distanplaces; in the great cities of
the weern world no less than in dis
tant Wages on eastern hills. 1t was
heardoy the kneeling woman in a
New Dirk pew, by the barefoot Igo-
rot ladhunters, by Chinese con-
vertswith bowed heads, by Hindu
womn listening reverently with their
arms folded crosswise on their.
breass, by Persian, japanese, Syrian,
Russindeed, by all the peoples of the
worl.
Fom New York, its starting point,
the prayer was sent around the
word by the interchurch world move
met of North America, movement
to bring about Protestant co-opera-
tic1. By telegraph it was sent to the
great denominations of this country;
b. cable it went to England and the
east. Thus it was dispatched to every
mission center everywhere, and from
every mission center it went on again
in the language of the country to ev-
cry Protestant mission station near
and far.
First to Be Sent Around World.
This prayer is the first ever to be
sent around the world, the first ever
to be translated into a thousand lam
guages and spoken simultaneously in
countless places. With one voice,
though in many tongues, it calls for
"the elevation of justice and of
brotherhood" and appeals for the
fastening of that "kingdom where
justice, mercy and love shall rule the
hearts and hands of men,"
And when merrymakers were
thronging through the Boulevard des
Italiens, Paris or streaming along the
Strand, or pressing along the lighted
sidewalks of Broadway, or trudging
through the Bund in Shanghai, wait
ing for the ringing in of the New
Year in churches and in chapels some
of them made of marble and some of
them of mud, Christian people of the
white race, and the yellow race, and
the black race, were hearing the
prayer that went around the world,
a prayer for guidance to replenish
a devasted earth and stay the unrest
of perplexed peoples.
A Watch Night Prayer.
The prayer is as follows
almighty God, father of all man
kind, at the end of a year in which !
malice has so often thwarted love, we
join the prayers of all thy children
around the world for peace, the eleva- |
ton of justice and of brotherhood.
"Thou, Creator, possessor of all |
things, who didst make the earth for !
the races of men and didst set bounds !
for their habitation, forgive US our |
greed as we repent of our sin, and |
restore to our hearts the recognition |
of the transcendent right of human !
life to live.
"Open our eyes, we beseech thee,
to the dignity of labor, the sacredness
of human service, and the privileges
of production, that nation may join
nation and man may join man justly
in honest work to replenish a devas-
tated earth.
"Quicken the sympathy of hearts
made dull by reports and sights of
suffering, incomprehensible and need
less.
"Call us again that we may bow be-
fore the eternal laws of creation, put
ting aside malice, envy, covetousness
and brutality, to enter into the peace
OF the sons of the most high.
"Hasten by thy gracious providence
and the consecrated efforts of thy
children the coming of thy worldwide
kingdom. where justice, mercy and
love shall rule the hearts and hands
of men.
"Create in US, 0 Lord, clean hearts
and renew the right spirits for the
cribs we ask in the spirit of Jesus
Christ, our only hope. AmenW