Littell's Living Age/Volume 138/Issue 1783/The Prayer of St. Chrysostom

THE PRAYER OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM.

BY ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF "CHILD WORLD."

Almighty God, who gives us grace,
⁠With lifted heart and bended knee,
In one accord of time and place
⁠To make our common prayer to thee,

And promises to grant the prayer
⁠That lips and heart united frame,
When two or three are kneeling there,
⁠Gather'd together in thy name,

Fulfil, O God, their wishes now,
⁠Grant their petitions upward sent;
But only in the way that thou
⁠Knowest to be expedient.

Give us the knowledge of thy truth,
⁠As much as in this world may be;
And in the next undying youth
⁠And everlasting life with thee.

Good Words.