The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-04
PRAYER READ
FOR PRESIDENT
BY REV. WEST
Baptist Minister of San Fran
cisco Also Prays for
Calvin Coolidge

San Francisco, Aug. 4.--(By tn
Associated Prcss) 1.-The Rev. Jane
S. West, pastor Of the First Baptis
church Of San Francisco, dclivere,
the following prayer at the service.
for President Harding here last even
ing:
almighty GA, Our Heavenly Faith
err, Thou art the Supreme Ruler OF
the nation and the world, the loving
Heavenly Father Of all Thy children
almighty in Thy strength and inf
mite in Thy tenderness.
eve approach Thee humbly and
revcrently but boldly and expcctant-
~ in this hour when our hearts are
wrung with sorrow, the nation is
bowed in grief, and the eyes and
heart sympathies of the world are
turned toward this place.
The great and beloved chief magis-
trate of our nation has suddenly fall
en- at the moment when We most
brightly hoped that our earnest pray
ers for his speedy and complete re-
covery were being graciously an
swered, when his great work, as it
seemed to US, had only we'll begun.
Our hearts are broken, we are sore
stricken with the sense of loss to his
family, loved qnes> fyiends. the ma
ton and the SrG
"Our hope IS in Thee, and Thee on
ly We humbIy abeseech Thee that
. Thine infinite grace and comfort may
be bestowed upon us abundantly in
this hour Of our supreme need as in
dividuals, and as a nation.
Thanks Expressed
We thank Thee out of the depths
of our hearts for the noble, christian
character, lofty principles, and not
able service of him whom Thou has
called from sacrfical service to rest
eternal. We bless Thee for his I'M
shrinking courage, his stalwart
strength, his radiant kindness and
gentleness and for his self forgetting
devotion to the cause of Justice,
brotherhood and peace for the indi-
vidual, the nation and the world, in
the propagation of which he sacrifice
ed his life. and as a martyr to which
he is lovingly enshrined forever in
the hearts Of the grief stricken but
grateful people.
We fondly hope and earnestly
pray that what he wished and sought
to accomplish by his life may now
be accomplished by his death. Raise
up others, we beseech Thee, who shall
carry forward and complete the great
work which he began.
I'VE beseech Thee to bless with
wisdom, poise and strength, all those
who were associated with him in the
great affairs Of the nation, and up-
on whom with his going there rests
a burden of responsibility.
I'VE beseech Thee, especially, to
bless him who by this providence is
called to the chief magistracy of the
republic.
Let Thy tenderest benediction of |
comfort and sustaining grace be up
on members of the stricken family. |
bis aged father, his brother. and Sis !
ters, especially upon his faithful, de-
voted wife, and helpmate. Comfort |
her with the hope of eternal life and |
according to her great need, be Thou
her sufficiency day by day until that
bright morning dawns when she shall |
see again the face of him whom she |
has loved long since and lost awhile.
: we make this petition for Thy
rich blessing upon the nation and
the world in the name of Him who
IS the resurrection and the life, Jesus
Christ, Our Lord and Saviour"