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PRAYER
- Our Father, which art in heaven; Hallowed be thy name
- Thy Kingdom Come;
- Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
- Give us this day our daily bread,
- And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors;
- And lead us not into tempation but deliver us from evil
(Matt 6:9-13)
CREED
- I believe in God , our Father, Mine and all men's,
- whose name of love is alone to be reverenced supremely as the
ideal;
- whose will for earth is the establishment of His social order
of heavenly love;
- who has so His world that all his children will be given
daily bread, if we live to fulfill this, His purpose;
- who freely forgives us our debts in the measure in which we
are able to receive his forgiveness, that is , as we have
forgiven our brethern;
- who never leads any child of His into a situation where he
may be tempted to evil without providing deliverance for him, if
he follows His leading.
PROGRAMME
- Our Father, I will deal with thee as a son in trust and
obedience and love and with every child of Thine as a brother;
- I will hallow Thy name of love by seeking so to represent it
that Thou shall be lovely in all eyes;
- I will make Thy purpose mine and seek to live in and further
the Kingdom of justice, kindness and faithfulness in the earth;
- I will be confident that, seeking first Thy kingdom, I shall
not fail of daily bread;
- I will not run into any temptation unled; but when led into a
trying situation will rely absolutely on Thy deliverance as I
obey Thy leading
EXPERIENCE
- I have discovered God, My Father and all men's;
- I have found that his character compels supreme adoration;
- that His will is that the earth shall contain a brotherhood
of His children dwelling together, as they do in heaven, the
spere of His ideals;
- that He has cared for Me faithfully as I have striven to
fulfill His will;
- that He forgives freely as we forgive, and so has been
entirely at one with Me, who have always forgiven My brethern;
- that he has never led me into any temptation without
providing a way of escape, that I might in His strength meet and
vanquish it.
By Henry Sloane Coffin, From a sermon published in 1907
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