XXII REPORT ON THE HENRY STATUE. 



PRAYER 



BY 



REV. r>R. HODGE. 



Eternal and almighty God, Creator, Preserver, and Governor of the 

 world, we have gathered here to adore Thy holy name, to implore Thy 

 divine protection, and to invoke Tby blessing. 



We bless Thee that, having brought the physical universe to its pres- 

 ent perfection and made it the vehicle of reflecting and expressing Thy 

 transcendent perfections, Thou hast made man in Thine own likeness 

 and endowed him with intelligence, capable of discerning and of inter- 

 preting the intellectual basis of all phenomena, the personal element in 

 all law. We bless Thee that Thou hast never left Thyself without a 

 witness even in the darkest period of human history ; that wherever 

 men have sought the Lord, however feebly, if haply they might feel 

 after Him and find Him, He has been found always to be not far from 

 any one of us, seeing that He is imminent in all existence and in all 

 life, and that in Him we live and move and have our being. 



We bless Thee that Thou hast sent through the ages a long line of 

 inspired prophets and teachers, crowned by the incarnation in human 

 flesh of Thy co-equal Son, to reveal in ever-increasing fullness the nature 

 of Thy moral government, the method of Thy redemption, and the glory 

 of Thy kingdom ; so Thou hast in these later days sent into the physical 

 universe many intelligent and earnest students, who, in various depart- 

 ments, are investigating the secrets of nature, and interpreting the 

 methods of Thy sublime working throughout the vast areas of time 

 and space. We bless Thee that Thou art gathering to Thyself so vast 

 and rich and constant a revenue of glory through the loving ministry of 

 science in all her various provinces. We thank Thee that so many of 

 her princes have been loyal to Tliy service and have rejoiced to make 

 all men to realize the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the 

 knowledge of God. 



Especially we thank Thee for the spotless example of Thy servant, 

 whose illustrious career is to be commemorated throughout all time by 

 the monument we are now unveiling. We bless Thee that he was as 

 humble and simple in his Christian faith as he was great in his intel- 

 lectual achievements or pre-eminent in his world-wide fame. We pray 

 Thee that his memory as a Christian philosopher may be preserved in 

 imperishable freshness and force through succeeding generations, that 

 his influence for good may be ever extended, and that his example may 



