THE PEOPLE'S 
 
 PRAYERS 
 
 AS VOICED BYA LAYMAN 
 
 GEORGE W. COLEMAN
 
 OF 
 
 IA 
 
 SAN DIEGO 
 
 presented to the 
 
 LIBRARY 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIKGO 
 
 by 
 FRIENDS OF THE LIHRARY 
 
 MR. JOHN C. ROSE 
 
 donor
 
 The People's Prayers
 
 The 
 People's Prayers 
 
 VOICED BY A LAYMAN 
 
 Written by 
 
 George W. Coleman 
 
 For His Own Use as Chairman 
 
 of the Ford Hall Sunday Evening 
 
 Meetings in Boston 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 THE GRIFFITH & ROWLAND PRESS 
 
 BOSTON CHICAGO ST. LOUIS 
 
 TORONTO. CAN.
 
 Copyright 1914 by 
 GEORGE W. COLEMAN 
 
 Published December, 1914
 
 MY BEST WISH 
 
 VrHEN we pray together, unbosoming ourselves 
 before a common Father, we are in the Vestibule of 
 the Kingdom of Heaven. Then comes out the best 
 there is in us. If the prayers of the people could be 
 adequately voiced, the millennium would not be far 
 away. May this little collection of prayers of the 
 people, a cross-section of real life, give you afresh 
 hint of the exquisite joys that come from the highest 
 fellowship with all kinds of people. Such fellow- 
 ship is my best wish for you in the days and months 
 that are bearing down upon us just now. 
 
 With friendly greetings, 
 
 December 25, 1914
 
 THESE prayers voice the best spirit of Ford 
 Hall. They were written by the man who 
 knows that remarkable assembly best; who 
 has fed its intellectual hunger, felt its pulse, 
 smiled with its laughter, checked its pas- 
 sions and taught it to pray. Writing with 
 this audience directly before his mind, he 
 has naturally said what he knew would have 
 the unreserved assent of his friends. 
 
 But the Ford Hall audience is a sign of 
 the times, a social prophecy, a guide-post to 
 the coming democracy. It is not a chance 
 crowd any longer; it is a growth and an 
 organism. The possibility for its existence 
 was created by a great and wise busi- 
 ness man, who had thoughts of peace and 
 love toward the working people, and pro-
 
 vided a place where they and God might 
 meet. The possibility was turned into a 
 reality by another business man, who, under 
 the tuition of Jesus, had come to believe in 
 the people in whom Jesus believed. He be- 
 came a real religious leader to the Ford 
 Hall people; he consolidated them and 
 helped them to find themselves and God. 
 
 At first there did not seem to be much 
 religion in those meetings. Perhaps God 
 was there, even though his name was not 
 often mentioned. But after a time George 
 Coleman ventured to lead them in prayer. 
 They might have resented it at first. Now 
 they tolerated it. Formerly they might have 
 regarded it as an antique and useless cus- 
 tom forced on them by outsiders ; now they 
 slowly responded to it as the natural expres- 
 sion of their common thought and feeling. 
 
 Ford Hall has been the forerunner of 
 other similar forums. They would prob- 
 ably have sprung up anyway, but the sue-
 
 cess of Ford Hall has stimulated them, 
 and they are utilizing its experience. This 
 type of public meeting stands for a new 
 democratizing of religion, like the prayer- 
 meeting and the Sunday-school when they 
 first became popular. Here the people have 
 a chance to get a free and sincere discus- 
 sion of their own social and moral ques- 
 tions. The problem for the religious men 
 who are organizing these forums is how to 
 ennoble these discussions by the spirit of 
 religion. They need a very pure type of 
 religion for that purpose, something prac- 
 tical, ethical, undenominational, non-eccle- 
 siastic, and yet devout. 
 
 The prayers in this little book will tell a 
 careful reader a great deal about the re- 
 ligious ideals and points of view to which a 
 modern audience of non-churchgoers will 
 respond. They are rich in thought, simple, 
 transparent, keen, and to the point. They 
 were not written by a careless or untaught
 
 hand. They show the touch of a literary 
 craftsman and a born writer. 
 
 Some prayers, in their emotions, their 
 appeals, and their phraseology, are an echo 
 of the past. This little collection, perhaps, 
 gives us a foretaste of the religion which 
 will comfort and hearten our children when 
 they bear the burden of life. 
 
 WALTER RAUSCIIENBUSCH.
 
 THE author never intended that these 
 prayers should be published. They were 
 written one at a time in the midst of 
 crowded hours in response to an immediate 
 need. Always did he have deeply in mind 
 the common aspirations of his conglomerate 
 audience the orthodox and unorthodox 
 among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants, 
 with a large preponderance of unbelievers 
 of every stripe and shade. 
 
 The introduction of the prayer into our 
 meetings, strenuously counseled against by 
 some of the author's dearest and most 
 spiritual-minded friends who did not believe 
 the audience would accept it, has been a 
 great blessing to us. No one has ever seri- 
 ously objected, many have expressed great 
 satisfaction, and occasionally the apprecia-
 
 tion is so marked that it expresses itself in 
 general applause, no other method of saying 
 Amen being known to that audience. It has 
 been a distinct advantage to find that a body 
 of people with little or nothing in common 
 religiously could pray together in real ear- 
 nestness without introducing any divisive 
 note. 
 
 The request came from the audience itself 
 that the prayers be put in some permanent 
 form in order that many might possess 
 themselves of a copy for presentation to 
 friends. It was also felt that these prayers, 
 together with the hymns which have been 
 found most usable at the Ford Hall Sunday 
 Evening Meetings in Boston, might be help- 
 ful to other open forums, similar to ours, 
 which had not yet fallen upon any prac- 
 ticable method of introducing the devotional 
 note into the meeting. 
 
 As a rule, each of these prayers had a 
 definite relation to the subject under discus-
 
 sion for the evening it was used, and was 
 never employed a second time. This col- 
 lection, with a few exceptions, includes only 
 those which might appeal to any other con- 
 gregation of a similar character. 
 
 The author is encouraged to believe that 
 this little book will at least do no harm in 
 the world, for a very frank auditor was 
 heard to remark, directly after the prayer 
 one night, " Why, them prayers wouldn't 
 hurt nobody nohow." And judging from 
 what he has felt of the response from liv- 
 ing souls to the blessing these prayers have 
 brought the people, he sends them out 
 gladly, confidently, and thankfully. 
 
 GEORGE W. COLEMAN. 
 
 BOSTON, MASS., December i, 1914.
 
 Prayers of the People
 
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 E make confession, O God, of 
 the unbrotherly divisions among 
 religious people. We have oft- 
 times allowed our supreme con- 
 cern for the welfare of the human soul to 
 carry us into great bitterness toward our fel- 
 low men. While we pray for strength to 
 live the truth as we see it, we beseech thee 
 to make us kindly and considerate toward 
 those with whom we differ. Our economic 
 needs have driven us into fellowship in all 
 our daily walks. By thy divine grace show 
 us how these same differences may be united 
 in aspirations common to all our hearts, 
 and how these antagonisms may be dis- 
 sipated in deeds that will bring us together 
 in bonds of spiritual fellowship. Amen. 
 
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 MIGHTY God, our Father, we 
 are thankfully glad that thou 
 hast raised up for us prophets 
 and seers in this day and genera- 
 tion. Help us that they may not become 
 martyrs through our indifference, intoler- 
 ance, or hostility. Open our eyes, give us 
 understanding, we pray, that the light of 
 truth may do its great work in these vital 
 days in which we are living. Help us to 
 know and recognize thy prophets by the 
 fruits of their lives, and give us the courage 
 and the steadfastness to hold up their hands. 
 Amen. 
 
 3]
 
 thee, our common Father, we 
 [lift up our hearts in gratitude 
 for the blessings of the year, 
 [realizing that unearned good 
 and unmerited protection have come to us, 
 in addition to all that for which we have 
 striven and that against which we have 
 guarded. As we look out over the threshold 
 of the new year, we pray thee, add to the 
 common necessities of our daily life an over- 
 mastering desire to grow in moral and spir- 
 itual worth. Help us to see clearly that the 
 physical and material, without the moral 
 and spiritual, is death and destruction. 
 
 Help us to cultivate in our own natures 
 those virtues which we think are lacking in 
 our neighbors. Help us to rebuke injustice, 
 selfishness, and bigotry by living the just, 
 the generous, and the open-minded life. Let 
 us not be content unless each day we have 
 added some worth to our characters by some 
 service done for our fellow men. Amen. 
 
 [Pae 5]
 
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 IGHTY and loving Father, in 
 the midst of these days of love 
 and good cheer for friends and 
 family, grant to us a growing 
 sense of the worth of every human life. 
 Let us not forget the sufferings and sacri- 
 fice of motherhood, the cares and cost of 
 fatherhood, the protection and help of so- 
 ciety, without which human life would not 
 endure. Forgive us for the light estimate 
 which we have put on the father and mother 
 of somebody else, the careless regard for the 
 other man's son and daughter, the wicked 
 indifference to other people's little ones. 
 Give us the grace and strength, Almighty 
 God, to do collectively for the unfavored 
 and unprivileged members of the human 
 family what our hearts prompt us to do for 
 our own flesh and blood who need our pro- 
 tection and help. Amen. 
 
 fPae 7]
 
 |F we acknowledge a universal 
 fatherhood or work for a uni- 
 versal brotherhood, save us, O 
 | God, from both hypocrisy and 
 sentimentality in our attitude toward the 
 man who is not of our race. May we treat 
 him as a brother, acknowledging his rights, 
 recognizing his differences, and having re- 
 gard to the welfare of the whole human 
 family. 
 
 Help us to recognize the value of things 
 that divide men as well as the worth of 
 things that unite men. Let not selfishness, 
 pride, or power betray us into unbrother- 
 liness toward any man. Neither let us 
 ignore the great basic fact of diversity in 
 unity which thou hast written all over the 
 universe. Grant to us, each one, that grace 
 of heart and poise of mind that will enable 
 us to contribute our little share toward a 
 just and happy solution of the great race 
 problems that so vex the world. Amen. 
 
 [Pae 9]
 
 ur 
 
 give thanks, our Father, for 
 I these meetings. We rejoice in 
 the fellowships they have 
 I brought to us. Our hearts have 
 been uplifted, our outlook enlarged, our 
 enthusiasms have been enkindled, our preju- 
 dices softened. We revere the memory of 
 him whose loving heart made all this pos- 
 sible. We acknowledge our debt to those 
 who minister in his stead. Do thou give 
 them grace to persevere. Forgive those 
 who do not understand and who would 
 hinder if they could. Make us valiant and 
 worthy to maintain the truth entrusted to 
 our keeping and save us, no matter how 
 hard pressed, from all bitterness of spirit 
 and hateful reprisals. Amen. 
 
 [Pane 1 II
 
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 EACH us first, our Father, how 
 to be at peace with ourselves. 
 May thy Spirit within us put 
 away all our unworthiness, and 
 make us lovers of all that is true and 
 beautiful. Teach us the joy of serving our 
 fellow men. Help us to look upon the 
 things of others rather than upon our own, 
 and to learn that love, to all those who exer- 
 cise it, is the greatest constructive force that 
 can be employed, and that hatred is fiercely 
 destructive not only to the one hated, but 
 also to the one hating. 
 
 O God, grant each one of us such a 
 genuinely peaceful soul that hatred and 
 murder on an international scale will appear 
 to us only more hideous than personal hatred 
 and personal violence. Amen. 
 
 [Page 13]
 
 THOU Creator of all things and 
 of all life, teach us, we pray 
 thee, to recognize the real nature 
 of property and its relation to 
 human life. As property would have no 
 value without men, forbid that we should 
 be continually mistaking the shadow for 
 the substance. Since property is created 
 and made available by the labor of human 
 beings, help us to strive mightily against 
 that materialism which makes wealth of 
 more account than men. Save the creators 
 of wealth from being dominated by what 
 they themselves have created ; save the mas- 
 ters from idolatry and the workers from 
 slavery. Cleanse our souls from the love 
 of getting something for nothing. Help us 
 to abominate misappropriation under every 
 form and in every guise. Amen. (Great 
 applause.) 
 
 Chairman's remarks: It is perhaps quite un- 
 usual for a prayer to be applauded, but I do not 
 
 [P.e 151
 
 see any reason why we should not express our 
 appreciation of a prayer in that way as well as 
 in the good old Methodist fashion by saying, 
 " Amen." We do not have to follow any prece- 
 dents here at Ford Hall, but can make our own 
 precedents; and, if that is your way of express- 
 ing your interest in a prayer, you are perfectly 
 welcome to use it. 
 
 [Page 16]
 
 HOU great Spirit over all, 
 we recognize thy lordship in 
 our lives; we know our limita- 
 tions; we feel our insufficiency. 
 We look to thee for help. Our joyful fel- 
 lowship together here is made possible be- 
 cause thou hast taught us to love one an- 
 other, and we have been able to learn a 
 little of that lesson. Just as we imperfectly 
 understand one another, so do we still less 
 perfectly understand thee. Grant us, we 
 pray thee, an enlargement of that spiritual 
 sense which prompts us to love our fellows, 
 and which draws us toward thee. Remove 
 the scales that blind us, whatever they may 
 be, and let the sunshine of love, mercy, and 
 peace fill all our lives. Amen. 
 
 17]
 
 UR Father in heaven, help us to 
 realize in every phase of life the 
 brotherly and sisterly relation 
 that should obtain between men 
 and women. May the standards of the 
 true home in this respect become our stand- 
 ards in the realms of industry and govern- 
 ment. May society recognize the necessity 
 of giving women a share in those things that 
 determine the environment of the home and 
 that relate to its efficient maintenance. Our 
 hearts go out in thanksgiving to thee for 
 those countless millions of women who 
 through the generations have so nobly car- 
 ried such a large share of the hitherto all- 
 embracing home life. Save us from a fail- 
 ure to use all the God-given powers of heart 
 and mind of the women of to-day in the 
 solution of the great problems that press 
 upon us. Amen. 
 
 [Pae 19]
 
 S children of thy bounty, thou 
 Giver of all, we observe every- 
 where in all thy works an over- 
 flowing provision for the needs 
 of man. Forbid, O God, that we who ac- 
 knowledge thy fatherhood and our common 
 brotherhood should be content with any 
 scheme of life whereby the workers, and 
 those who are willing to work, are shut out 
 from their heritage in this great abundance 
 of good things. Help us to put our heads 
 together and to keep our hearts in unison 
 that we may devise means whereby all in- 
 dustrious men and women may have their 
 every need supplied, and an abundance may 
 be left for those who ought not to toil. 
 Amen. 
 
 [Pae 21]
 
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 JHOU great Teacher of the race 
 1 of men, who hast brought us out 
 of the darkness of past ages into 
 
 the marvelous light of these 
 
 latter days, accept our gratitude, we pray 
 thee, for that measure of release from 
 superstition and fear which is our portion 
 to-day. Make us realize that, though the 
 way has been long and the progress great, 
 there is as much for us yet to discern and 
 appropriate and pass on to others as came 
 to our fathers before us. 
 
 Grant unto us open minds and discern- 
 ing hearts, and make us quick to learn a 
 lesson in everything and from everybody. 
 Save us from cramped minds and shriveled 
 souls. Give wings to our thought and wide- 
 ness to our affections. May our fellowship 
 together in these meetings help us along the 
 pathway of light and love. Amen. 
 
 [P.e 23]
 
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 TERNAL Father of the human 
 family, make us more conscious 
 of thy loving interest in us, and 
 of thy wise oversight of all our 
 affairs. May we feel and recognize thy 
 compelling hand, restraining our impetuous 
 immaturity, and stimulating our flagging 
 faith. 
 
 Make us to rejoice more and more in our 
 family relationship to thee and to each 
 other. Help us to know ourselves not only 
 as sons and daughters, but also as brothers 
 and sisters. 
 
 Forgive, we pray thee, our very narrow 
 limitation of the brotherly and sisterly rela- 
 tionship. May the blessedness of the true 
 brotherly and sisterly fellowship, such as 
 we have experienced in our own homes, ever 
 be our hope and expectation for the whole 
 human family of brothers and sisters. And 
 may we know that brothers and sisters, 
 whether of the limited or of the larger 
 
 [Page 25]
 
 family, are equally precious in thy sight, and 
 that thou hast so bound them together that 
 no wrong can be done to the one without 
 bringing degradation to the other, and that 
 neither can be surfeited or neglected without 
 danger to both. 
 
 Open thou the eyes of our understanding, 
 we pray thee, and help us to see thine own 
 truth in the matter of the relationship be- 
 tween man and woman. Amen. 
 
 (Page 26)
 
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 ILMIGHTY God, our Father, do 
 thou accept such acknowledg- 
 ment, devotion, and worship as 
 we, with all our limitations, are 
 able to bring to thee. Thou knowest that 
 some of us, with the utmost willingness, can- 
 not apprehend thee at all according to ac- 
 cepted standards. Thou knowest that some 
 of thy most devoted children do most fear- 
 fully misapprehend thee. The best of thy 
 children the world over do but see thee as 
 in a mirror darkly. 
 
 Therefore, we pray that thou wilt save us 
 all from any pride of spiritual aristocracy, 
 and help us to help each other toward the 
 light. Save us from contempt and bitterness 
 toward those whose eye of faith is not 
 focused like ours, and save those of us who 
 cannot see at all from misjudging those who 
 can see. 
 
 Thou hast compelled no man to acknowl- 
 edge thee, but by thy good providences and 
 
 [Pace 27]
 
 gracious mercies thou art drawing all men 
 unto thyself. May we, thy children, go and 
 do likewise ; compelling no man, by sneer or 
 by fear, and winning all men by love and 
 by sincerity. Amen. 
 
 [Page 28]
 
 LMIGHTY God, our Father, we 
 thank thee that thou hast given 
 us work to do, that thou hast not 
 given us a finished world with 
 nothing left in it to be done, but hast made 
 us sharers with thyself in the wonderful 
 processes of creation. Forgive us that, in 
 our blindness and greed, we have made the 
 conditions of work so hateful and debasing 
 to so many of our fellow men. Help us to 
 understand that joyous work is akin to 
 worship, and that willing idleness is an 
 abomination. May we know, our Father, 
 that thou art concerned in all our daily 
 vocations, and that we cannot do unjustly 
 with one another on a week-day and bring 
 thee an acceptable offering on a Sabbath. 
 
 We pray that there may be among all 
 men a fuller realization of the dignity and 
 blessing of work, a quicker readiness to 
 recognize the shame of wasteful idleness, 
 a fiercer hatred against those conditions 
 
 IPage 29]
 
 that thrust idleness upon willing workers, 
 and a more profound conviction that thou 
 art anxious to be our partner in every rela- 
 tion of life. Amen. 
 
 [Page 30]
 
 LMIGHTY God, we thank thee 
 for the presence in the world of 
 men of other races, of other 
 tongues, of other colors, and of 
 other faiths than our own. Help us to ex- 
 change and share with all of them the best 
 gifts of thy bounty. May we not keep back 
 the good we can carry to them, nor shut our 
 doors against the blessing they would bring 
 to us. We thank thee that thou hast put it 
 into the heart of man to give his life un- 
 selfishly and unstintedly in helpful service 
 to his brother man, whether he live across 
 the street or around the globe. Forgive us 
 that we fall short, so many of us, and so 
 often. Let us not rest until every man at 
 home and abroad shares with us the best 
 that we have. Amen. 
 
 [Page 31]
 
 earte 
 
 GOD, our Father, help us to 
 know ourselves as thou knowest 
 us. Help us to realize that most 
 of the evil that blights us arises 
 from man's inhumanity to man. Forgive us 
 if sometimes, in our blind rage, we seek to 
 put the blame elsewhere and deny thine 
 everlasting goodness. While we cry out 
 for succor and justice for the oppressed, O 
 God, take out of our own hearts the mean- 
 ness, the arrogance, the hypocrisy, the un- 
 fairness that is found there every day. 
 Power makes oppressors of us all without 
 the grace of love in our hearts. Thy great- 
 est gift to us is love for one another. 
 
 Give us, we pray, an unspeakable hatred 
 against everything, within or without, that 
 would tend to destroy that most precious 
 possession of our souls. Amen. 
 
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 THOU great Maker and Mas- 
 ter of all wealth and Creator 
 and Lover of all mankind, teach 
 us, we pray thee, the true rela- 
 tion between man and wealth. Thou hast 
 made us to earn our living by the sweat 
 of our brow. In the darkness of the ages 
 we seem to have lost the straight and nar- 
 row path, for many there be who labor 
 grievously and live miserably, while others 
 live luxuriously and labor not at all. We 
 confess our own un worthiness in withhold- 
 ing from the needy that superabundance 
 which has been so freely bestowed upon 
 us. All we are guilty, having come short 
 of what we should have done. O God, break 
 the hardness of our hearts, open the eyes 
 of our understanding, and pour forth upon 
 us a spirit of love and justice for our fel- 
 low men that shall break down all the mid- 
 dle walls of privilege that separate us from 
 one another. Amen. 
 
 [Pase 35]
 
 winter. 
 
 GOD, our Father, we pour out 
 our hearts in gratitude for the 
 way in which we all have been 
 led in this series of meetings this 
 We give thanks for all the joy 
 and blessing they have brought to us. We 
 acknowledge our indebtedness to the men 
 filled with the spirit of service whose mes- 
 sages have enlarged our vision, strengthened 
 our faith, and made us to have a living 
 sympathy with all our fellow men every- 
 where who are heavily burdened and nar- 
 rowly limited. 
 
 We pray thee to help us each one to make 
 the utmost of ourselves in service to our 
 fellow men. May these meetings be instru- 
 mental in making us all bigger-hearted and 
 larger-minded in all our relations in life. 
 Let us not be content with seeking justice. 
 May we also hunger to be just in word and 
 thought and act toward those whom we meet 
 every day. Give us more power to per- 
 
 [P e 37]
 
 suade others to the truth which thou hast 
 given us to see and, at the same time, make 
 us open-minded toward the truth that has 
 not yet gripped our hearts. 
 
 Do thou continue to guide and guard us 
 in the work we are trying to do here. 
 Rule and overrule in those deliberations 
 out of which shall come the decision as to 
 the continuance of this work another win- 
 ter. And bless the men of the Baptist So- 
 cial Union who have made this platform 
 possible. Amen. 
 
 [P.ge 38]
 
 IE rejoice in the high privilege 
 [which is ours of joining together 
 in fellowship with thee, the God 
 
 | of our Fathers, the God of the 
 
 Jew and of the Christian alike. Our hearts 
 are made to burn within us because of this 
 unwonted benefit. It is our earnest sup- 
 plication that all thy children everywhere 
 may be drawn closer and closer together 
 in mutual toleration, respect, and affection, 
 while we still cling faithfully, each one of 
 us, to the vision of truth which is our very 
 own. 
 
 We thank thee that our blessed country 
 has been made an asylum of the oppressed 
 and the dispossessed from many lands. We 
 pray with all the passion of our souls that 
 we may have the grace and the patience, the 
 open-mindedness and the faith, the courage 
 and the strength, to realize in full measure 
 the great spiritual possibilities that are ours. 
 Thou hast chosen to make America the 
 
 [Page 39]
 
 great crucible into which is being poured 
 the brightest hopes and the deepest desires 
 of the youth of many climes. Help us, by 
 the alchemy of spiritual forces, to bring 
 forth in due season the noblest individual 
 and national life that this old world of ours 
 has ever seen. Amen. 
 
 (P.te 40]
 
 ITH thankful hearts, we ac- 
 knowledge, O God, the satisfac- 
 tion given by the drama, the 
 helpfulness afforded by the 
 stage, and the ministering service rendered 
 by the players who entertain, inform, and 
 uplift the multitude. We have received 
 much from these sources, and have given 
 little in return. Grant us, we pray, a seri- 
 ous mind and a sense of personal respon- 
 sibility in our attitude toward the theater. 
 May we shun the evil in it and support the 
 good. Do thou uphold every playwright, 
 manager, and player who is striving to up- 
 lift his fellow man, and give them the back- 
 ing of all men and women who love right- 
 eousness and who work for the coming of 
 the kingdom. Amen. 
 
 [Page 41]
 
 ELP us to find thee, O God, in 
 the hearts and lives of the men, 
 women, and children that are all 
 about us. May we break down 
 every barrier that hinders us from really 
 knowing one another. Bring us together, we 
 pray thee, in friendly intimacies, in mutual 
 enjoyments, and in common aspirations. 
 Let those who are privileged bring gifts 
 of leisure and culture. Let the distressed 
 and the unsatisfied bring gifts of eagerness 
 and desire. Let the powerful lift up the 
 weak, and the light-hearted bring comfort 
 to the overburdened. Though we come 
 from the ends of society, and are separated 
 by injustice, prejudice, and untoward cir- 
 cumstances, help us, O God, to seek out 
 one another in love and patience and to rest 
 not until, through fellowship and friendli- 
 ness, we have realized a large measure of 
 the relationship of brothers and sisters of a 
 common Father. Amen. 
 
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 43]
 
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 [LMIGHTY God, blessed Father 
 of us all, we rejoice with joy un- 
 speakable that it is our privilege 
 to come to thee as the children of 
 one household, notwithstanding our fathers 
 before us have never been able to realize 
 their common inheritance, and could not sit 
 together at the great Father's table to enjoy 
 the wonderful feasts in spiritual things 
 which he has provided for all his children. 
 
 We acknowledge our unworthiness, our 
 short-sightedness, our weakness, but we love 
 thee and all thy works justice, truth, and 
 mercy. Even when we lose sight of thy 
 face and cannot hear thy voice and doubt 
 if thou livest, still we cling to thee in every- 
 thing that is beautiful and sweet and strong. 
 
 Our hearts are overflowing with gratitude 
 for the way in which thou hast gathered to- 
 gether and shepherded this peculiar flock. 
 Often we have not known which way to 
 turn, and frequently we have feared that 
 
 [Page 45]
 
 we would be scattered. But a power greater 
 than our own has preserved us, guided us, 
 and brought us safely and happily to this 
 fifth milestone in the life of our fellowship. 
 We give thanks, with all our strength, with 
 all our minds, with all our hearts. 
 
 Help us as we go forward enjoying the 
 great boon of free speech on all subjects, 
 in the presence of all men, to realize that its 
 price is an eternal vigilance over ourselves 
 and a constant recognition of the rights and 
 feelings of others. Through this wonderful 
 privilege of looking deeply into the minds 
 and hearts of all sorts and conditions of our 
 fellow men, grant to us a continually widen- 
 ing vision of the truth, an ever-increasing 
 tenderness of sympathy, a constantly broad- 
 ening tolerance of understanding, a deepen- 
 ing sense of brotherly obligation, and an 
 ever-growing determination to see justice 
 done in this world here and now. 
 
 We commit our way unto thee. We pray 
 for strength and grace. We rejoice in what 
 has been given us. We go forward trust- 
 fully, humbly, expectantly. Amen. 
 
 (Page 46]
 
 Almighty, we beseech 
 Ithee to loosen the scales from 
 our eyes that we may see the 
 I wickedness of our inhumanity to 
 each other. Thou hast given the land filled 
 with treasure for the blessing of all thy chil- 
 dren. We have so misused it that millions 
 suffer for lack, while thousands are choked 
 by surplus. Thou hast provided plentifully 
 for all. Help us to renounce the system by 
 which the strong and the favored get some- 
 thing for nothing and the unfortunate and 
 the lowly fail to receive the full reward of 
 their toil. Make us to see, we pray, that the 
 fault lies in us, every one, and that the re- 
 sponsibility for mending it is upon us, every 
 one. Give us the grace to do it patiently and 
 fairly, but certainly. Amen. 
 
 [P.e 47]
 
 E acknowledge with grateful 
 hearts the growing determina- 
 tion of men the world over 
 to find a better way to live. 
 We rejoice in the great leaders from all 
 ranks of society who have been raised up to 
 blaze the way toward a larger truth and a 
 sounder righteousness. Help us, O God, to 
 yield ourselves to this new spirit of the age, 
 which will not believe that poverty and dis- 
 ease and crime must be accepted as a neces- 
 sary part of our every-day life. Help us to 
 trust thee that the way shall be found to 
 reduce these evils to a negligible minimum. 
 Give us, we pray, open minds and stout 
 hearts that we may see the heavenly vision 
 and commit our lives to it. Make us all 
 willing to sacrifice present and personal 
 comfort for the future welfare of the whole 
 race of man. Amen. 
 
 [Page 49]
 
 S we pass the sixth anniversary 
 of our coming together, our 
 greatest thankfulness is that our 
 union with one another abides 
 in the midst of an ever-deepening affection 
 and a continually growing harmony of mind. 
 We thank thee, O God, for this rich experi- 
 ence, and for the testimony it brings to the 
 principle of human solidarity. We find that 
 the man who has been hated and despised 
 and rejected is thy child and our brother. 
 We are learning that the most favored of 
 thy children have much to be forgiven in 
 their relations to the other members of the 
 human family. Our hearts burn within us 
 as we mingle together in an earnest search 
 for truth, justice, and happiness. With 
 overflowing hearts, we give thanks that our 
 lot has been cast in this day and generation, 
 in this city and country, and among people 
 so generous and broad-minded. Amen. 
 
 [Page 51 ]
 
 LMIGHTY God, help us to 
 understand that injustice to any 
 one or to any class or race must 
 inevitably return upon the heads 
 of those who countenance it. Make us de- 
 termined to live by truth and not by lies, to 
 found our common life on the eternal foun- 
 dations of righteousness and love, and no 
 longer to prop the tottering house of wrong 
 by legalized cruelty and force. Help us 
 make the welfare of all the supreme law of 
 our land, so that our commonwealth may be 
 built strong and secure on the love of all 
 its citizens. Amen. 
 
 lPae 53]
 
 N every hand we see nature at 
 work, in mountain and stream, 
 in bush and tree, in the heavens 
 and under the waters. And this 
 work goes on without cessation. We re- 
 joice, O God, that we, thy children, have 
 been granted the capacity, the desire, and 
 the occasion to work. We delight in the 
 health, happiness, and achievement that 
 come through work. Help us to see that 
 every one must share in this blessing. Save 
 us from ruining the children of privilege by 
 giving them an overabundance of the fruits 
 of toil without requiring them to undergo 
 its discipline. Save us from robbing some 
 of our fellow men of the opportunity to 
 work while at the same time we crush other 
 men and children with a double burden of 
 work. Help us, we pray, to see to it that 
 every one has work to do and that every 
 one gets the fruit of his work. Amen. 
 
 55]
 
 HOU great and mighty Spirit 
 who rulest the universe and 
 holdest us with loving wisdom in 
 the hollow of thy hand, we know 
 that we are partakers of thy nature, even 
 though at times the light that is within us 
 may seem to have gone out and we grope 
 in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. 
 Every challenge of justice, all our search- 
 ings for truth, and each pleading of mercy, 
 whether met or unfulfilled or denied, never- 
 theless persuade us unmistakably that we are 
 something more than dust, something more 
 than animal, something more than automa- 
 tons or slaves we are children of the In- 
 finite, endowed with ability to think and feel 
 and Decide. Amen. 
 
 [Pae 57]
 
 (Emrmwttum 
 
 N the might of this great con- 
 sciousness of kinship with the 
 Infinite, our spirits flood forth to 
 meet thy Spirit, and in this sub- 
 lime communion we find a satisfying con- 
 tentment while the great mystery of life, 
 ever pressing on every side, at every mo- 
 ment, keeps us humble and makes us teach- 
 able, and keeps alive our hope and faith. 
 
 With all our strength and mind and heart, 
 we pray that this channel of high conscious- 
 ness through which flows the divinity that 
 unites us with thee may not become clogged 
 by selfishness, complacency, or indifference, 
 but that in the power of thy Spirit we may 
 go forth to make the little world of which 
 we are the center the best little world that 
 it is possible for it to be. Amen. 
 
 [Page 59]
 
 ur jifouggk 
 
 E do not pray to be freed from 
 all struggle. We ask for wis- 
 dom, strength, and courage that 
 out of our struggles may come 
 development and progress. May we be 
 cheered and upheld in the midst of conflict 
 by the realization that all that we most 
 cherish has come as the fruit of struggle. 
 Help us to accept this fact as the way 
 which thou hast ordained whereby mankind 
 moves on to better things. 
 
 But we do pray with all our hearts for 
 the hastening of the day when the struggle 
 with our fellow men, individually and in 
 groups and divisions, will be in mutual good 
 will and for the welfare of all concerned, 
 bringing in its train joy and satisfaction in- 
 stead of fear and discontent. 
 
 We pray, O God, that we may fight 
 valiantly and endure heroically without 
 malice and without bitterness, confident that 
 truth and justice will prevail. Amen. 
 
 [Page 61 ]
 
 people of 
 
 s 
 
 ACIOUS Father of us all, for- 
 give the cruel injustice of the 
 world toward the Jew. May we 
 of this day and generation, in 
 this enlightened country of civil and re- 
 ligious liberty, make some amends for the 
 past by granting to our Jewish fellow citi- 
 zens a generous appreciation and a hearty 
 fellowship in the work of making this nation 
 a blessing to the people of the whole world. 
 Help us to recognize that the mightiest and 
 most beneficent forces of our present-day 
 civilization come from the land and from 
 the children of Israel. Help us who are fol- 
 lowers of the gentle and lowly Nazarene to 
 despise everything that would make us hate- 
 ful and cruel or unjust in our attitude to- 
 ward the people of his race. We rejoice in 
 the bond of divine fellowship which is grow- 
 ing up here among those who for centuries 
 have been kept from enjoying spiritual com- 
 munion together. Amen. 
 
 [Pace 63]
 
 Sentiments of the People
 
 IN meetings such as are held in Boston, 
 at Ford Hall, Sunday evenings, it is neces- 
 sary to keep as far away as possible from 
 religious conventions. In order that even 
 one brief and simple prayer may not in 
 anybody's mind become a mere form to 
 which we are obligated in any way, it is 
 occasionally omitted altogether. At other 
 times a poem, a meditation, or an expression 
 of sentiment may take its place. Samples 
 of these are found in the pages following. 
 
 [Page 67]
 
 JV CHf ristttras $&&&%$ 
 
 HE keenest joys, the greatest 
 satisfactions, the richest treas- 
 ures we find in each other. Our 
 mutual intimacies are the coin 
 of the kingdom of life. He is richest who 
 knows best the most people. We only 
 know each other when we share the best 
 there is in us. Material possessions are 
 worth while only as they help us to know 
 people. They become a deadly poison when 
 they get between us and folks. 
 
 In addition to exchanging friendliness 
 one day in the year, let us give ourselves to 
 each other every day in the year. That is 
 the meaning back of this whole Christmas 
 business. 
 
 [Page 69]
 
 ur part's Olrg 
 
 N the public school we come the 
 nearest to our ideals of democ- 
 racy. There all our children re- 
 ceive according to their need and 
 capacity and without regard to their worth or 
 merit. As brothers and sisters in one great 
 family, they receive from the community as 
 a father some of the richest gifts that money 
 and ability and devotion can bestow. All 
 that is asked of them is that they make the 
 most of it, and recognize the source from 
 which it comes and pay for it in the coin 
 of good citizenship. 
 
 Our cry as a people, unto the God of our 
 fathers, is that the day may be hastened 
 when in the interest of the state all its cit- 
 izens of all ages and both sexes may be 
 given an equal opportunity to earn a living 
 and make a life just as we now give the 
 children an equal opportunity to get an edu- 
 cation and develop their powers. May we 
 so jealously guard and intelligently pro- 
 
 [Pa 8e 71]
 
 mote the welfare of our public schools that 
 they will be able to give us the boys and 
 girls who will later be the men and women 
 who will help to usher in the days of greater 
 democracy, toward which we are all looking 
 and yearning. 
 
 72]
 
 Cans* anh Affect 
 
 (By Arthur Guiterman, in Life.) 
 
 The powder lay in heaps a threat 
 Of death where powder should not lie ; 
 
 Some fool threw down a cigarette 
 And flaming ruin rent the sky. 
 
 Whereat, a solemn jury met 
 And laid the blame, in wisdom rare, 
 
 On him that threw the cigarette, 
 Not them that left the powder there. 
 
 Upon the heaps of Want and Shame, 
 Whereon men build, one evil day 
 
 Some fool will fling a word of flame 
 And what will follow, who shall say? 
 
 But should all earth be overset, 
 We'll lay the blame, in dull despair, 
 
 On him that threw the cigarette, 
 Not them that put the powder there. 
 
 By permission of the author. 
 
 [Page 73]
 
 jLttfb dtrl mtfc % 
 
 (By Burges Johnson.) 
 
 Said the little girl to a pussy-cat: 
 
 "It's jolly to make you play! 
 How soft you purr when I stroke your fur, 
 
 And your claws are all tucked away! 
 I love you ever so much for that," 
 Said a little girl to a pussy-cat. 
 
 " But oh, there's a terrible thing I've heard 
 That brings great sorrow to me ; 
 
 You killed a poor little baby bird 
 That lived in our apple tree. 
 
 You can't be dear to me after that," 
 
 Said a little girl to a pussy-cat. 
 
 " O little maid," said the pussy-cat, 
 " You are gentle and kind, they say, 
 
 To bird and beast, but didn't YOU feast 
 On chicken for lunch to-day? 
 
 And aren't there feathers upon your hat, 
 
 O little maid?" said the pussy-cat. 
 
 " Oh, I'll be I, and you'll be you, 
 As long as this world shall be. 
 
 If you'll be as good as you can for you, 
 I'll try to be good for me. 
 
 So let's be friends, and agree to that, 
 
 O little maid ! " said the pussy-cat. 
 
 By permission of the author, from " Rhymes of Home," 
 published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
 
 [Pe 751
 
 Songs of the People
 
 dob of f artt\ anb 
 
 (To the music of " Webb.") 
 
 O God of earth and altar, 
 
 Bow down and hear our cry, 
 Our earthly rulers falter, 
 
 Our people drift and die; 
 The walls of gold entomb us, 
 
 The swords of scorn divide, 
 Take not thy thunder from us, 
 
 But take away our pride. 
 
 From all that terror teaches, 
 
 From lies of tongue and pen, 
 From all the easy speeches 
 
 That comfort cruel men, 
 From sale and profanation 
 
 Of honor and the sword, 
 From sleep and from damnation, 
 
 Deliver us, good Lord. 
 
 Tie in a living tether 
 
 The priest and prince and thrall, 
 Bind all our lives together, 
 
 Smite us and save us all; 
 In ire and exultation 
 
 Aflame with faith, and free, 
 Lift up a living nation, 
 
 A single sword to thee. 
 
 G. K. Chesterton. 
 
 [Page 79]
 
 Onward, brothers, march still onward, 
 
 Side by side and hand in hand; 
 We are bound for man's true kingdom, 
 
 We are an increasing band. 
 Tho' the way seems often doubtful, 
 
 Hard the toil which we endure, 
 Tho' at times our courage falters, 
 
 Yet the promised land is sure. 
 
 Olden sages saw it dimly, 
 
 And their joy to madness wrought; 
 Living men have gazed upon it, 
 
 Standing on the hills of thought. 
 All the past has done and suffered, 
 
 All the daring and the strife, 
 All has help'd to mold the future, 
 
 Make man master of his life. 
 
 Still brave deeds and kind are needed, 
 
 Noble tho'ts and feelings fair; 
 Ye too must be strong and suffer, 
 
 Ye too have to do and dare. 
 Onward, brothers, march still onward, 
 
 March still onward hand in hand; 
 Till ye see at last Man's kingdom, 
 
 Till ye reach the promised land. 
 
 H. Havelock Ellis. 
 
 By permission of the author. 
 [Page 80]
 
 Oio&mttimrf to ^t 
 
 (To the tune of "Austria.") 
 
 Thro' the clamor and the riot 
 
 That is heard from sea to sea, 
 I can feel the coming quiet 
 
 Of the government to be. 
 Vain the effort to dissemble 
 
 For the truth is clear to all, 
 And the old conditions tremble 
 
 Like a ruin doomed to fall. 
 
 Vain the veiling and disguising 
 
 Of the evils which exist, 
 For new systems are uprising 
 
 From the wreckage and the mist; 
 And the mills of God are slowly 
 
 Surely grinding out their grist, 
 While the laws of right and justice 
 
 Hold and evermore persist. 
 
 As the sun first tints the border 
 
 Of the darkness with his light, 
 So the faint far gleam of order 
 
 Gilds the chaos of the night; 
 And the dawn shall grow in splendor 
 
 To the fulness of the day 
 When the hands of greed surrender 
 
 What from toil they tore away. 
 
 (Page 81]
 
 For the land to all was given 
 
 It belongs to you and me ; 
 "Pis a law of earth and heaven 
 
 Broken now from sea to sea. 
 Let monopoly be driven 
 
 From the fortress of the free; 
 And let liberty bid welcome 
 
 To the government to be. 
 
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
 
 Reprinted by special permission of the publishers, W. B. 
 bnkey Company, copyright, 191 
 Power," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
 
 O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! 
 
 Where pity dwells, the soul of good is there ; 
 To worship rightly is to love each other, 
 
 Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a pray'r. 
 
 Follow with rev'rent steps the great example 
 Of all whose holy work was doing good; 
 
 So shall the wide earth seem a human temple, 
 Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. 
 
 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor 
 Of wild war-music o'er the earth shall cease; 
 
 Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger, 
 And in its ashes plant the tree of peace. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 By permission of Samuel T. Pickard. 
 (P.te 82]
 
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 O beautiful for spacious skies, 
 
 For amber waves of grain, 
 For purple mountain majesties 
 
 Above the fruited plain! 
 America ! America ! 
 
 God shed his grace on thee, 
 And crown thy good with brotherhood 
 
 From sea to shining sea! 
 
 O beautiful for pilgrim feet, 
 
 Whose stern, impassioned stress, 
 A thoroughfare for freedom beat 
 
 Across the wilderness! 
 America! America! 
 
 God mend thine ev'ry flaw, 
 Confirm thy soul in self-control, 
 
 Thy liberty in law! 
 
 O beautiful for heroes proved 
 
 In liberating strife, 
 Who more than self their country loved, 
 
 And mercy more than life! 
 America! America! 
 
 May God thy gold refine, 
 Till all success be nobleness, 
 
 And ev'ry gain divine ! 
 
 O beautiful for patriot dream 
 That sees beyond the years 
 
 [Page 83]
 
 Thine alabaster cities gleam 
 
 Undimmed by human tears ! 
 America ! America ! 
 
 God shed his grace on thee, 
 And crown thy good with brotherhood 
 
 From sea to shining sea! 
 
 Katharine Lee Bates. 
 
 By permission of the author. 
 
 t dtorimis (iolten Cttg ! 
 
 Music: Sanctuary J. B. Dykes, 1871 
 
 Hail the glorious Golden City, 
 
 Pictured by the seers of old! 
 Everlasting light shines o'er it, 
 
 Wondrous tales of it are told : 
 Only righteous men and women 
 
 Dwell within its gleaming wall; 
 Wrong is banished from its borders, 
 
 Justice reigns supreme o'er all. 
 
 We are builders of that city; 
 
 All our joys and all our groans 
 Help to rear its shining ramparts; 
 
 All our lives are building-stones ; 
 Whether humble or exalted, 
 
 All are called to task divine ; 
 All must aid alike to carry 
 
 Forward one sublime design. 
 
 [Page 84)
 
 And the work that we have builded, 
 
 Oft with bleeding hands and tears, 
 And in error and in anguish, 
 
 Will not perish with our years; 
 It will last and shine transfigured 
 
 In the final reign of Right, 
 It will merge into the splendors 
 
 Of the City of the Light. 
 
 Felix Adler, 1909. 
 
 Copyright, 1914, from " Social Hymns." 
 The A. S. Barnes Company, publishers. 
 
 d!arclj of gtt&om 
 
 (To the music of " Marseillaise.") 
 
 Hark, hark, the peal of clarions calling, 
 
 A host unnumbered marching by, 
 O'er serried ranks the pennons falling! 
 || The hills give back the battle-cry. || 
 
 Whence come ye, hero warriors, hither? 
 
 What land, what ages, gave ye birth? 
 
 What crave ye still of bleeding earth? 
 What laurel-wreaths that shall not wither ? 
 
 To arms the clarions call, 
 
 To deeds the doing worth ; 
 March on, march on, till freedom dawn, 
 
 And justice rule the earth! 
 
 [Pace 851
 
 Glory to God, the day is breaking, 
 
 The long-awaited golden morn ! 
 The heroes dead who, self-forsaking, 
 || Gave all to hasten freedom's dawn. || 
 
 As brothers, comrades, march beside us; 
 
 On, then, to conquest of the world! 
 
 On, till our battle flags are furled 
 In freedom's peace, and God shall guide us. 
 
 Ye mountains, clap your hands ! 
 
 Exult, O sky and sea! 
 March on, march on ! breaks over all lands 
 
 The dawn of liberty ! 
 
 Charles Sprague Smith. 
 
 Reprinted by permission of Mrs. I. D. Sprague Smith. 
 
 mrw 
 
 " Thy kingdom come ! " O Lord we daily cry, 
 Weary and sad with earth's long strife and 
 
 pain! 
 
 " How long, O Lord ! " thy suff' ring children sigh ! 
 " Speed thou the dawn, and o'er the nations 
 reign ! " 
 
 Thy kingdom come ! then all the din of war, 
 Like some dark dream, shall vanish with the 
 night ! 
 
 Peace, holy peace, her myriad gifts shall pour, 
 Resting secure from danger and affright. 
 
 [Page 86]
 
 Thy kingdom come ! no more shall deeds of 
 shame, 
 
 Brutish and base, destroy the soul divine; 
 Bright with thy love's all-purifying flame 
 
 Thy human temples evermore shall shine ! 
 
 Thy kingdom come ! mad greed for wealth and 
 
 power 
 
 No more shall grind the weaklings in the dust. 
 Then mind and strength shall share thy ample 
 
 dower, 
 Brothers in thee, and one in equal trust. 
 
 H. W. Hawkes. 
 
 Copyright, 1914, from " Social Hymns." 
 The A. S. Barnes Company, publishers. 
 
 Hear, hear, O ye nations, and hearing obey 
 The cry from the past and the call of to-day ! 
 Earth wearies and wastes with her fresh life out- 
 poured, 
 The glut of the cannon, the spoil of the sword. 
 
 Lo, dawns a new era, transcending the old, 
 The poet's rapt vision, by prophet foretold! 
 From war's grim tradition it maketh appeal 
 To service of all in a world's commonweal. 
 
 [Page 87]
 
 Home, altar, and school, the mill and the mart, 
 The workers afield, in science, in art, 
 Peace-circled and sheltered, shall join to create 
 The manifold life of the firm-builded state. 
 
 Then, then shall the empire of right over wrong 
 Be shield to the weak and a curb to the strong ; 
 Then justice prevail and, the battle-flags furled, 
 The high court of nations give law to the world. 
 
 And thou, O my country, from many made one, 
 Last-born of the nations, at morning thy sun, 
 Arise to the place thou art given to fill, 
 And lead the world-triumph of peace and good 
 will! 
 
 Frederick L. Hosmcr. 
 
 By permission of the author. 
 
 flfyutgg 
 
 These things shall be! a loftier race 
 Than e'er the world hath known, shall rise ; 
 
 With flow'r of freedom in their souls, 
 And light of science in their eyes. 
 
 They shall be gentle, brave, and strong, 
 To spill no drop of blood, but dare 
 
 All that may plant man's lordship firm, 
 On earth, and fire, and sea, and air. 
 
 (Page 68]
 
 Nation with nation, land with land, 
 Unarm'd shall live as comrades free; 
 
 In ev'ry heart and brain shall throb 
 The pulse of one fraternity. 
 
 New arts shall bloom of loftier mold 
 And mightier music thrill the skies, 
 
 And ev'ry life shall be a song, 
 When all the earth is paradise. 
 
 These things they are no dreams shall be 
 For happier men when we are gone : 
 
 Those golden days for them shall dawn, 
 Transcending aught we gaze upon. 
 
 John Addington Symonds. 
 
 Copyright, 1914, from " Social Hymns." 
 The A. S. Barnes Company, publishers. 
 
 for ti\t ffinxx 15 Cmmttg ! 
 
 O hark, for the hour is coming, 
 
 When your ears shall anointed be ! 
 
 Aye, listen, 'tis rising and swelling, 
 
 O'er populous land and sea ! 
 
 The morning stars began it 
 
 At the dawn of creation's birth, 
 
 And the circling spheres go swinging 
 
 And singing it unto earth. 
 
 [Pace 89]
 
 And earth shall forget her groaning 
 And learn the song of the spheres, 
 And the tired shall sing that are moaning 
 And the sad shall dry their tears. 
 
 For the song of the spheres is motion, 
 
 And motion and toil are life, 
 
 And the idle shall fail and falter, 
 
 And yield at the end of strife. 
 
 As the stars tread forth appointed, 
 
 And the sun gives forth his heat, 
 
 So the sons of men shall labor 
 
 Ere they rest in honor's seat. 
 
 And kings are to serve the people, 
 
 And wealth is to ease the poor, 
 
 And learning to lift up the lowly 
 
 And strength that the weak may endure. 
 
 Lo, the burden shall be divided, 
 And each shall know his own, 
 And the royalty of manhood 
 Shall be more* than crown or throne. 
 And the flesh and blood of toilers 
 Shall no longer be less than gold, 
 And never an honest life shall be 
 Into hopeless bondage sold. 
 For we, the people, are waking, 
 And high and low shall employ 
 The splendid strength of union 
 For liberty, life, and joy. 
 
 Author unknown. 
 
 [Page 90]
 
 (M <&rtsg mtb 
 
 (Copyright, 1913, by the Survey Associates.) 
 
 Now let us all arise and sing 
 The coming kingdom of our King, 
 The time when all shall brothers be, 
 Each loving each, all loving thee. 
 Oh, when shall dawn the glorious day 
 For which we hope and work and pray? 
 
 How long, O Lord O Lord, how long 
 Shall these thy weak ones suffer wrong? 
 Dear Father, use what means thou wilt 
 To cleanse our lives from greed and guilt; 
 Help us to put away our sin 
 And learn to bring thy kingdom in. 
 
 Emily Green Batch, 1913. 
 By permission of the Survey Associates. 
 
 Oiob ^a6c tfye 
 
 When wilt thou save the people? 
 
 O God of mercy, when? 
 Not kings and lords, but nations, 
 
 Not thrones and crowns, but men. 
 Flow'rs of thy heart, O God, are they, 
 Let them not pass like weeds away, 
 Let them not fade in sunless day. 
 God save the people. 
 
 [Page 911'
 
 Shall crime bring crime forever, 
 Strength aiding still the wrong? 
 
 Is it thy will, O Father, 
 That men shall toil for wrong? 
 
 " No I " say the mountains ; " No ! " the skies ; 
 
 " Man's clouded sun shall brightly rise, 
 
 And songs be heard instead of sighs." 
 God save the people. 
 
 When wilt thou save the people? 
 
 O God of mercy, when? 
 The people, Lord, the people, 
 
 Not thrones and crowns, but men. 
 God save the people, thine they are; 
 Thy children, as thy angels fair, 
 Save them from bondage and despair. 
 God save the people. 
 
 Ebenezer Elliott. 
 
 Copyright, 1914, from " Social Hymns." 
 The A. S. Barnes Company, publishers. 
 
 My country! 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 
 Of thee I sing: 
 Land where my fathers died! 
 Land of the Pilgrims' pride ! 
 From every mountainside 
 
 Let freedom ring! 
 
 [Pate 92]
 
 My native country, thee, 
 Land of the noble free, 
 
 Thy name I love; 
 I love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and templed hills; 
 My heart with rapture thrills, 
 
 Like that above. 
 
 Let music swell the breeze, 
 And ring from all the trees 
 
 Sweet freedom's song: 
 Let mortal tongues awake; 
 Let all that breathe partake; 
 Let rocks their silence break, 
 
 The sound prolong. 
 
 Our fathers' God, to thee, 
 Author of liberty, 
 
 To thee we sing; 
 Long may our land be bright 
 With freedom's holy light; 
 Protect us by thy might, 
 
 Great God, our King. 
 
 5. F. Smith. 
 
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