PEATER 



BY 



REV. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D. 



OUR Father and our God, Thou who dwellest in supernal light, 

 and yet with him who is of an humble and contrite heart Thou 

 who hast been so often dishonored in the anarchic thoughts of men 

 and yet dost bear the same with ineffable patience, behold us! 

 Fain would we with all our hearts bow before Thee in wonder 

 and adoration. 



We give Thee hearty thanks for that creation when the morning 

 stars sang together and for that redemption heralded by a multi- 

 tude of the heavenly hosts " Glory to God in the Highest and on 

 earth peace, good- will to men!" 



We thank Thee for the mighty train of human generations. We 

 thank Thee for the capacities of the human race opening out 

 toward the future for evermore. We thank Thee for the great 

 nations that have run their course and for the great nations that 

 are still enacting their parts in this wondrous field of time. We 

 thank Thee for the vigor of intelligence and the grandeur of 

 enterprise that have discovered so many great things for man. We 

 thank Thee for the many toilers on every side who are unravelling 

 the secrets of nature and building up a possibility for the still more 

 noble triumphs of the immortal soul. 



And we thank Thee for him whose memory, so fragrant, has 

 been made to bloom so freshly in this winter night. God be 

 praised for the name of him in whom knowledge and faith blended 

 their glorious light. God be praised for the evolution and exalta- 

 tion to which a higher than material philosophy will surely sum- 



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