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 of thy servant, and to his supplication, 
 O Lord my God, to hearken unto the 
 cry and to the prayer which thy serv- 
 ant prayeth before thee this day." 
 
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 THE CHOICE FELLOWSHIP OF THE CHURCH 
 AND COLLEGE THROUGH WHICH IT HAS BEEN 
 MY PRIVILEGE TO SERVE; TO THE FRIEND 
 WHOSE INTEREST AND APPRECIATION 
 CALLED THIS BOOK OF PRAYERS INTO 
 existence; AND TO ALL LONGING SOULS 
 WHO PRAY THAT THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE 
 MAY BE SHAPED INTO FORMS OF THOUGHT, 
 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, IN THE HOPE THAT 
 IT MAY MINISTER TO THE PERFECT LIFE. 
 
preface 
 
 Most of the College prayers printed 
 in this book were given to friends who 
 asked for them at the time the prayers 
 were said. They are now quite as really 
 the gift of these friends as of him who 
 spoke them at first. 
 
 What is herein said in the name of the 
 Church may serve to call back days 
 when young men took up her vows and 
 went forth to do her work. 
 
 What is herein set down in the name 
 of gracious and grateful memories will 
 be read by revering souls in the thought 
 of a fresh bereavement, and in the com- 
 fort of a maturer trust. 
 
 What is herein said in the assured 
 belief that in life's evening the soul looks 
 
8 PREFACE 
 
 to God, is said in regret, indeed, in view 
 of life's failures, but more in a tranquil 
 faith, and in a lofty sense of what is good 
 and divine. 
 
 On the whole, for the sake of an urgent 
 request, I should like to feel that the 
 book has in it an awakening of the Easter 
 message, and a reviving confidence in the 
 Risen One and Redeemer. 
 
 C. H. L. 
 
 Tufts College, 
 Easter, 1915. 
 
Contents: 
 
 Page 
 
 COLLEGE PRAYERS 
 
 For Light and Peace 13 
 
 For Distinctive Education 17 
 
 For An Open Way 19 
 
 For A Widened Horizon 21 
 
 For An Ampler Faith 23 
 
 For Devotion to Life's Needs ... 25 
 
 For Light from Light 27 
 
 For Consecrated Intelligence ... 29 
 
 For An Inspired Life 31 
 
 For An Inclusive Culture ..... 33 
 
 For A Brightening Future 35 
 
 For The Culture of Character . . 39 
 
 For Helpful Service 43 
 
 For The Unfolding Life of the Col- 
 lege (Semi-Centennial) 45 
 
 THE CHURCH AND ITS MINISTRY 
 
 For The Fruitful Years (Semi-Cen- 
 tennial) 49 
 
 For Grace and Vision (Ordination) . 53 
 
 For Self-Giving (Ordination) .... 57 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 For Consecration of Pastor and 
 
 People (Installation) 61 
 
 For Oneness with Christ (Communion) 67 
 
 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY 
 
 Of E. H. C. — A Fruitful Life . . 
 Of T. J. S. — An Endowed Leader 
 Of I. W. C. — One Called of God 
 Of A Friend — A Living Life . . . 
 Of Mrs. R. — A Ripened Life . . 
 Of B. B. C. — A Life of Beautiful 
 
 Service 
 
 Of A. H. — A Life of Grace and Power 
 
 71 
 
 77 
 81 
 85 
 89 
 
 93 
 97 
 
 IN LIFE'S EVENING 
 
 (Prayers said, and to be said, in private.) 
 
 For The Power To Reflect 
 For The New Dawn .... 
 For The Soul's Life in God 
 For The Power To Aspire . 
 For The Grace of God . . 
 For The Soul's Sovereignty 
 For The Enterprise of Love 
 
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 " He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to 
 them that know understanding." 
 
 Daniel 2:21. 
 
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 GOD, our heavenly Father: 
 We rejoice that, amid all the 
 changing years, Thou art the 
 same, and that to Thy years there is no 
 end. We thank Thee for a great in- 
 heritance, and a great history in all 
 things that make for learning and for 
 righteousness, for the peace and light 
 that more and more have come to this 
 college, and for the light and peace that 
 have here been more and more shed 
 abroad to enlighten and to comfort. 
 
 We remember before Thee the found- 
 ers and favorers of this college, and all 
 
 Commemoration Sunday, June 18, 1905. The motto 
 of Tufts College is "Pax et Lux." 
 
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 those who have watched over its growth 
 and held it in wise and affectionate 
 regard. 
 
 We are glad, also, for those who have 
 found here a growing life, and noble 
 preparation for a various duty and citi- 
 zenship. 
 
 Help us, therefore, this day, not 
 only in a reviving memory of productive 
 years, and the gifted lives that have 
 shaped our way, but help us in view of 
 what we are in this present, and in view 
 of the promise of what, in Thy great 
 goodness, the new day will bring to us. 
 We commit the college, ourselves, all we 
 are and have, to Thee, in new resolve 
 and new devotion with respect to the 
 great causes which are inseparable from 
 our history, and our daily work and 
 care. 
 
 Command Thy blessing upon this oc- 
 
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 casion, and upon all who are here pres- 
 ent before Thee, for all our days and all 
 our lives are Thine: through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
Jfor Btetmcttoe Cbucatton 
 
 GOD, who art the Giver of 
 light and of understanding, help 
 us to-day to see what is our 
 distinctive cast of ability and of power, 
 that so we may estimate aright the 
 work of the teacher in the greater of- 
 fices of education, and in the ennobling 
 results of character and experience. We 
 rejoice to-day in the collective service of 
 the college, and in its allegiance to a dis- 
 tinctive truth. We thank Thee for the 
 yesterdays of patient preparation, of 
 growing discipline, and for the new 
 sphere of opportunity into which now 
 these eager students are thrown. Save 
 them, we beseech Thee, from self-isola- 
 tion. Open their hearts to the appeals 
 
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 of Providence, and to the noblest disci- 
 pline of humanity. Give to them the 
 happy choices by which all selfish ease 
 is broken, and all inspired effort com- 
 pleted. Grant to them now even a 
 greater measure of tranquillity as they 
 stand at the very gate of privilege. 
 Keep them in the pure love of knowl- 
 edge, and in the sacred thirst for truth 
 and the spiritual good. Give also to the 
 college this day joy and thanks, in view 
 of all its tasks, and its constant call. 
 Amen. 
 
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 GOD, the Giver of all good: 
 We rejoice this day in all the 
 promises of our special college 
 circle, and in the living seal that Thou 
 hast put upon all right endeavor that 
 has here been put forth. We rejoice in 
 all noble aims, in all intellectual gifts, 
 and in all spoken and silent accom- 
 plishments for character and scholarship. 
 Hear our prayer for all opening life in 
 those who this day go forth to meet 
 life's care and work. Make for them an 
 open way for trust, for courage, for skill, 
 and for that love which triumphs over 
 all depressing care, that finds the light 
 through and above all dark clouds, and 
 fills the opening future with forms of 
 
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 light. What marks this interesting hour 
 is not the close but the continuance of 
 opportunity. Be, therefore, with these 
 various young lives in all personal labor 
 and human service, to the end that free- 
 dom may become its distinctive privi- 
 lege, its growing enthusiasm, and its 
 sustained diligence. Amen. 
 
Jfor a OTtbeneb 1%$m}tm 
 
 GOD, who art the Giver of life 
 and the Author of all good, 
 help us on this our day of gra- 
 cious memories, of eager ambitions, and 
 of assured success, to the end that we 
 may see the way we have come, and the 
 new road that invites our thought, our 
 most generous will, and our largest 
 hopes. We rejoice to-day in the wid- 
 ened horizon, the unexplored life, and 
 the possible achievement, for these are 
 Thy gifts to all souls who have not 
 fallen from their first intent, and who 
 now come to take up the vow of self 
 devotion. Keep these lives, we beseech 
 Thee, in balanced power; give to them 
 a more discerning insight, a stronger 
 
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 purpose and will, a deepening compas- 
 sion. Create within them the conscious- 
 ness of all historic life, so that they may 
 know that they belong to a spiritual kin- 
 dred. May they take with them, as 
 they go hence, the gains of a positive 
 knowledge with which the college life has 
 enriched them. Help them to face, with 
 a quiet eye and a strong heart, the world 
 of opportunity. Hear also our prayer 
 this day for this college, its overseers, its 
 officers, and faculties. Help us to see 
 that the true and the good can never be 
 severed in our aspirations, nor in our 
 trust. Amen. 
 
Jfor an Ampler Jfattfi 
 
 GOD, who givest truth for the 
 mind, law for the conscience, 
 and love for man's affections, 
 visit our college circle this day, when we 
 come to face results in intelligence, in 
 right purpose, and in the mature wis- 
 dom of the soul. Grant to-day some 
 clear insight of the product of student 
 years, a calmer confidence in the high 
 offices of opportunity, and in the schol- 
 ar's call to serve the growing need of the 
 world. To this end, grant an ampler 
 faith in man's possibilities, a more pa- 
 tient hope for man's use of a disciplined 
 intelligence, and a growing courage along 
 the years in view of the suffering need of 
 the world. Help them to confide in the 
 
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 inner realities of human life, and to give 
 themselves, more and more, to aspira- 
 tion and trust. 
 
 Hear to-day the prayers of parents 
 and friends that this young life, now 
 swayed with the new sense of responsi- 
 bility, may rejoice, not that the hour of 
 release has come, but that the dawn of a 
 new day smiles for thought and effort. 
 Grant new light and peace to this col- 
 lege; guard anew its wise and eager 
 oversight; and help its officers and 
 teachers in all their cares and trusts. 
 Amen. 
 
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 THOU, who art the Teacher of 
 all those who serve Thee in the 
 schools of the world, and espe- 
 cially of those who serve Thee in the 
 higher institutions of learning, we rejoice 
 in their devotion to the great interests of 
 the intellectual life, and to the recurrent 
 call of the reopening thought, and to the 
 methods of the new day. Help us in 
 the study of that progressive endeavor, 
 which here and now this day celebrates. 
 We yield to the swift retrospect of the 
 appointed years of study, and to the 
 maturer vision of the years of promise 
 that here to-day holds the near yester- 
 days of student life in review, and waits 
 before the quick path of a special devo- 
 tion to the world of need. 
 
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 Grant unto these young men and 
 women the patience of hope, the vigor 
 of faith after struggle, and the calm as- 
 surance of disciplined faculties. Anew 
 to-day we give this college to the great 
 offices of light and peace. Anew we ask 
 for a continued loyal oversight and a 
 strong immediate devotion of those who 
 have known her protection and guidance 
 along the years. Open all our souls 
 to the quest of the future, and to the 
 nobler vision of truth and goodness. 
 Amen. 
 
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 GOD, who art Light and livest 
 in light, grant unto this day 
 the revealing light of a growing 
 intelligence, the deepening light of in- 
 vigorating purpose, and the ever-widen- 
 ing light of love. Grant also unto this 
 day and this occasion, which is at once 
 an ending and a beginning, the seal of 
 Thy divine approval, and the aid of that 
 inspiration which is always from above, 
 and more and more along the path of 
 larger knowledge, a growing virtue, and 
 an ampler faith. Here to-day for these 
 waiting students is the approval of in- 
 terested teachers, the joy of parents and 
 the welcoming interest of friends. 
 
 Grant Thy blessing upon this waiting 
 
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 young life, and open to it more and more 
 the chosen way, and the vaster oppor- 
 tunity. Give to this eager life the 
 steady toil in view of the world's grow- 
 ing activities and its manifold needs. 
 Save us, we beseech Thee, from all task- 
 work, and increase in us all generous en- 
 thusiasms. What more can we ask than 
 that we be held to the attractions of all 
 light, and to the service of all that is 
 right and holy, that so we may be kept 
 in simplicity and faithfulness. In the 
 name and as the disciples of Jesus 
 Christ. Amen. 
 
Jfor Consiecrateb Sntelltgence 
 
 GOD, to whom can we go on 
 this day of great memories and 
 of disciplined anticipations, but 
 to Thee who dost endow the years and 
 hallow all human endeavors! Teach us 
 to listen anew to the voices of the years 
 that have been spent in the study of 
 inviting subjects, amid the wholesome 
 rivalries of the classroom. Guard us 
 against the intellectual vagrancies of all 
 false effort, and cheer us along the future 
 way by the gracious persuasiveness of 
 student comradeship and the ennobling 
 call from the world of activities. We re- 
 joice to-day in the wise faithfulness of 
 devoted teachers, and in all their efforts 
 in this place, to honor learning, to in- 
 
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 spire students with the love of knowledge, 
 and to endow them with the passion for 
 a noble career in the world that calls for 
 a consecrated intelligence. 
 
 Hear our prayer to-day for the growth 
 of the college in opportunity and privi- 
 lege, that so it may be at once an invi- 
 tation and a challenge. Give wisdom to 
 those who are set to watch over its out- 
 ward growth, and give a distinctive 
 knowledge to its president and faculty. 
 
 For what, O God, do we wait, but for 
 Thy blessing! Through Jesus Christ, 
 our Lord. Amen. 
 
Jfor an 3fas;ptreb Htfe 
 
 GOD, who art all wise, we re- 
 joice to-day in the product of 
 the years, in their value to us 
 in discipline and culture. Above all we 
 rejoice in the specific gift to this college 
 of a maturer manhood and womanhood 
 in those who to-day stand on the thresh- 
 old of a serving future. We rejoice in 
 the sphere of opportunity into which 
 they are now thrown, and in the many- 
 handed service that beckons to their in- 
 telligence and devotion. 
 
 Hear the prayer of parents and friends 
 that to-day goes up in behalf of this 
 eager company who come to give their 
 youth and strength to the obligation of 
 life's practical duties. Teach them the 
 
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32 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 great lessons of forbearance and grati- 
 tude. Help them and help us all to seek 
 the peace of Christian charity. Grant 
 also unhesitating reverence for the true 
 and the good. Refresh us in sorrows, if 
 such come to us; give victory in moral 
 struggle; and unite us more and more to 
 the majesty of an inspired life. Amid 
 the distracting turmoil of the world, 
 grant us the victory of a lasting peace. 
 Amen. 
 
Jfor an Smlusitoe Culture 
 
 LMIGHTY God, our heavenly 
 Father: Thou, who dost shape 
 all history, inspire all human 
 progress and all effort for personal ad- 
 vancement in intellectual life and good- 
 ness: hear our prayer in behalf of this 
 college and its continuously directed in- 
 fluence in behalf of the eager young life 
 that seeks its guiding power for culture 
 and character. Help us to count up 
 into the sum of actual life and accom- 
 plishment, all the offices of a skilled 
 guardianship and a wise instruction, that 
 so results may appear in disciplined 
 thought, in invigorated moral life, and 
 in a nobler manhood and womanhood. 
 So help them, we beseech Thee, that the 
 
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 very principle of goodness may assert its 
 vitality, and put forth in more beautiful 
 growths. Grant to us the holy fresh- 
 ness of penitence; restore to us the for- 
 gotten accents of conscience; move us 
 by the inspiration of a real mission and 
 the nobler enterprise of love. Hear our 
 prayer in behalf of all right efforts in 
 education. O Thou, who dost touch all 
 the springs of human power, save us 
 from anxious care, and open our gaze to 
 the repose of faith and trust. Amen. 
 
jfor a prigfitenmg Jfuture 
 
 THOU, the only wise God, the 
 Father of light, and the Source 
 of all knowledge! Send down 
 Thy heavenly blessing upon this college, 
 and upon the occasion that has brought 
 us together. We rejoice to-day in all 
 the activities that have their center in 
 this place by which intelligence is hon- 
 ored, virtue exalted, and true religion in- 
 creased. We remember before Thee all 
 those who have known the gracious fel- 
 lowship of student years, and to-day call 
 back the joy when hopes were large, the 
 tension also of noble effort, and all the 
 triumph of happy hours. Grant, now, 
 that the light which so gladdened them 
 
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 may shine upon the path that opens to- 
 day for so many young and eager feet. 
 Fulfil the desires of parents and friends 
 as these go forth to share in the attrac- 
 tive duties, and the peace and progress 
 of the world; and bestow upon them 
 and upon us some vision of a brighten- 
 ing future for all true learning. Give 
 ampler life to all schools and colleges 
 and universities; and to all nations and 
 peoples give growing knowledge, the 
 tranquil power of faith, of abiding hope, 
 and the love of goodness and concord. 
 
 With Thee, O God, are the issues of 
 all our endeavor. Help us, therefore, to 
 take up the accent of a new trust, and 
 to send forth the plaint of a new desire, 
 that so we may be worthy stewards of a 
 great inheritance; and, to this end, mer- 
 cifully save us from the disquietude of 
 the spirit; and keep us in the high fel- 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 37 
 
 lowship of faith, of disinterested love, 
 and of unanxious will. We ask these 
 things in the name and as the disciples 
 of Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje Culture of Character 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father, 
 with whom are all the treas- 
 ures of understanding, who dost 
 give calm wisdom and virtue from gen- 
 eration to generation, and by whose 
 mercy knowledge is increased, intelli- 
 gence spread abroad, and the light of 
 truth made to shine on the nations: 
 Send down Thy heavenly blessing upon 
 this college, upon this day, and upon the 
 congregation here assembled. We re- 
 joice in the noble host here made ready 
 along the productive years for large and 
 fruitful work in the wide service of the 
 world; and we rejoice in those who, this 
 day, go forth from these halls with aca- 
 
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40 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 demic honors to join the great company. 
 We thank Thee for the mastery of diffi- 
 culties; for enlargement of life; for 
 deepening resource; for a joyous sense 
 of victory; and for the continuous worth 
 of responsibility. We thank Thee, also, 
 for that fellowship of students and schol- 
 ars which binds us to the great teachers 
 of all time, and makes sure to the hum- 
 blest the heritage of the race in personal 
 capacity, in a growing sense of intellec- 
 tual freedom and in the enduring quali- 
 ties of sympathy and patience. 
 
 And grant, O God, some new tide of 
 power to bear us on to nobler things and 
 vaster. Inspire us more and more with 
 the quest of truth, and keep before us 
 the vision of a perfect state for the in- 
 dividual and for society. Save us from 
 selfish preoccupation, and help us to put 
 first the things that are first, — the 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 41 
 
 graces of the soul and the nobler culture 
 of character. 
 
 Command Thy blessing upon those 
 whose duty it is to watch over the inter- 
 ests of this college, and upon those 
 whose beneficent art it is to teach our 
 youth, and to lead the way to a wider 
 learning, and an ampler life; and, of 
 Thy great goodness, deepen in us the 
 spirit of surrender to Thy will, that, in 
 this place, and in all places of instruc- 
 tion and learning, there may be wisdom 
 and simplicity, strength and tenderness, 
 in larger and purer adjustment, all our 
 days through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
Jfor Helpful berime 
 
 GOD, the Giver of light and 
 hope: We rejoice in Thy guid- 
 *^|y^ ance, as, year after year, we 
 come to this place and yield to the sanc- 
 tion of the wisdom which is from above, 
 and of that mercy which redeems the 
 hard severities of the world and forever 
 educates an enveloping strength. Here 
 together, year after year, we have learned 
 the constraints and the aspirations of life 
 and character. Help us as we stand on 
 the threshold of a great world where 
 careers are fixed, and destiny shaped. 
 Here to-day is the seclusion of our effort 
 and its constant ministry; there, in the 
 to-morrow, we take up the complexity 
 of life, where the reins are not taken out 
 
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 of the hands of judgment, and yet where 
 pity and love are patient and hopeful. 
 Give to us to-day some nearer sight of a 
 higher grade of thought and feeling, that 
 so we may be girded for a helpful ser- 
 vice in the name of the world's deliver- 
 ance. Make us grateful for a wise and 
 patient guidance along the way; and 
 give to us hopeful guidance on all the 
 future path. Shield the young life of 
 this hour. Help it to achieve freedom, 
 to rule in Thy name, and to know the 
 prerogatives of the individual, and the 
 high sense of fellowship. Through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje <Blttfotomg Me of tfie 
 College 
 
 GOD, who art the same yester- 
 day and forever: Help us to 
 hold by the real quality of our 
 passing years, in view of what Thou art 
 as the Author of all good, and the in- 
 spirer of all human thought and effort. 
 We remember before Thee to-day the 
 founders and favorers of this college. 
 We rejoice that Thou didst move them 
 to build the college in this place, and so 
 to endue and endow it, that fortunate 
 years have marked its history. We re- 
 joice also that year by year friends, who 
 have seen the need and felt the power of 
 the college, have yielded to the attrac- 
 
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46 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 tive service of its scholarship, and to the 
 eager devotion of its teachers and its 
 students. We yield to-day to a gracious 
 memory of inspired beginnings, of un- 
 folding life and of chastened results in 
 disciplined character. Give us the cour- 
 age which comes as the endowment of 
 the years; and awaken within us a dis- 
 cerning zeal for the true and the good, 
 for light and peace, that they may be 
 maintained in harmony. Give to us 
 here to-day the prophetic spirit, that we 
 may not linger with the materials of 
 knowledge, but face more and more the 
 inner realities of human life, and of all 
 aspiration and trust. Save us this day 
 from all perverse discontent, and open 
 our souls more and more to fresh sacri- 
 fices and enthusiasms. Amen. 
 
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 1 As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, 
 So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : 
 When shall I come and appear before God? " 
 
 Psalm 42: 1-2. 
 
Jfor tfje Jfruftful gear* 
 
 LMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly 
 Father: We rejoice that Thou 
 art the same yesterday, to-day, 
 and forever, and that to Thy years there 
 is no end. All our life and all our ways 
 begin in Thee, and end in Thee. Thou 
 dost also attend us in all our endeavors, 
 and in all the movements of our human 
 life. All great causes are with Thee, 
 and Thou dost give motive with regard 
 to them to all Thy servants and chil- 
 dren. 
 
 We thank Thee to-day that Thou 
 didst put it into the hearts of Thy serv- 
 ants of the earlier time to found this 
 
 Semi-Centennial of the Univeralist Church, Medford, 
 Mass. 
 
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 Christian society, and that Thou didst 
 enable them, in all their effort and care 
 for the sake of the wider faith and the 
 larger hope. We thank Thee for the 
 self-sacrificing men and women who 
 brought hither their best gifts, and, 
 above all, their true lives, and pledged 
 them all in the name of religion. 
 
 Help us to see also what recurring 
 faithfulness and religious devotion have 
 been here along all the productive years 
 of this great history, the unbroken tes- 
 timony in behalf of Christian thought, 
 and the continuous witness concerning 
 the worth of things true and good as 
 originating in Thy love as source, and in 
 Thy Son as the divine way, and in souls 
 that deeply responded to Thy word, and 
 to the inspiration of Thy holy purpose. 
 
 We rejoice in those who are with us 
 to-day, in this consistent and loving 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 51 
 
 sense of brotherhood, the noble band of 
 men and women who here, in all these 
 recent years, have been constant to a 
 great memory, to a great calling, and to 
 a great promise. We remember, before 
 Thee, those who have ministered here at 
 this altar, and broken the bread of life 
 in the face of the great congregation. 
 And hear us for the one devoted life here 
 given to-day for the best good of this 
 parish, and this community. May he, 
 and all who worship in this place, hear 
 the voices that speak across the years, 
 and more and more, as from open skies, 
 and more and more from that teaching 
 that is always strong and gentle and 
 easy to be entreated. 
 
 Command now Thy blessing upon this 
 joyous anniversary; and while we count 
 up the days and years into the sum of 
 blessing, may we give ourselves anew to 
 
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 the things that make for simpler lives 
 amid all the stress and .hurry of the 
 world. Keep us in living association 
 with a great past, in vital communion 
 with an encouraging present, and in 
 hopeful interest and affection concern- 
 ing the future. Help us to show the 
 signs of a willing pupilage; and make 
 us more trustful in Thy love, and more 
 alive to the thoughts that drop and 
 breathe from a heavenlier world. And 
 hear us, O God, in the one petition that 
 stands in the center of our prayer, that 
 we may be right and good, maintaining 
 a resolute fidelity, an unanxious joy, 
 and a deepening peace, — through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
Jfor dlrace anb ^teton 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father, 
 send down Thy blessing upon 
 •^|y^ these, Thy servants, whom we 
 bless in Thy name. We remember be- 
 fore Thee their early vows; the growing 
 purpose of their hearts; the hopes of 
 parents; their years of wise waiting and 
 study that they might be enabled for 
 their great work; and all the special dis- 
 cipline in the fellowship of thought, con- 
 senting will, and affection. We rejoice 
 now in the consummation of their deep- 
 est wish, and in the future that awaits 
 their most faithful and loving service. 
 Give grace and vision in this sacred and 
 
 The Ordination of a Class of Students to the Christian 
 Ministry. 
 
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 joyous hour; and grant help unto us in 
 this our solemn act of ordination. 
 
 [The Laying on of Hands] 
 
 By the authority of the Church, by 
 Apostolic sanction, and by this solemn 
 laying on of hands, we do now ordain 
 thee, and, in the faith and freedom of 
 the Gospel, set thee apart to the office 
 and work of the Christian ministry: in 
 the name of the Father, and the Son, 
 and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 
 
 Mercifully with Thy favor look now 
 upon these Thy ministers, that they may 
 go forth with courage and with a pure 
 heart, fervently, remembering the poor, 
 comforting the sorrowful, teaching the 
 ignorant, and lifting up the afflicted. 
 May Thy peace rule in their hearts, and 
 the law of kindness dwell upon their 
 lips. Guard, guide and keep them in all 
 their labors. Enrich them, more and 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 55 
 
 more, with patient faithfulness and lov- 
 ing wisdom, to the end that souls may 
 be won to truth and goodness, and to 
 light and peace. Through Jesus Christ, 
 our Lord. Amen. 
 
Jfor &elM$ftring 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father: 
 We rejoice in the special and 
 •^|y^ instituted means for the re- 
 ligious life opened to us in the Christian 
 ministry. We rejoice, also, in all Thy 
 servants who have given themselves to 
 Christ and His ministry for individual 
 good and social progress. We thank 
 Thee now for this one life here before 
 Thee, and for the great hope, and wit- 
 nessing faith, and the growing love, that 
 have moved him during these productive 
 years of study and waiting. We praise 
 Thee for deepening life, for enlarging 
 vision, and a growing selfhood. Have 
 regard unto him in this act of self-giving 
 
 Ordination of a Young Man to the Christian Ministry. 
 
 57 
 
58 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 in the name of truth and for the ends 
 of religion. Hear the silent prayer of 
 friends, in view of his unanxious joy, as 
 he thinks of the way in which he has 
 been led, and of the opening way that 
 lies before him. Grant now the help of 
 Thy spirit that it may breathe upon 
 him; and aid us in this holy setting 
 apart of this one life and its consecra- 
 tion for the sake of others. 
 
 [The Laying on of Hands] 
 
 By the authority of the Church, by 
 Apostolic sanction, and by this solemn 
 laying on of hands, we do now ordain 
 thee, and, in the faith and freedom of 
 the Gospel, set thee apart to the office 
 and work of the Christian ministry: in 
 the name of the Father, and the Son, 
 and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 
 
 And grant now Thy heavenly blessing 
 upon this sacred office; and keep this, 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 59 
 
 Thy servant and minister, in its abiding 
 memory and sanctions. Be with him in 
 the privacy of his own mind and heart, 
 in the retreats of thought and prayer, 
 in all contact with the life he tries to 
 serve, and in all his enlarging work as 
 teacher and pastor. Keep open before 
 him an illumined word, and a brighten- 
 ing way; and keep him more and more 
 in the endowment of strength, of cour- 
 age, of patience, and of Thine own 
 peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
Jfor Consecration of $asitor anb 
 people 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father: 
 We rejoice that Thou hast 
 called us to serve in the Gospel 
 of Thy law, and in the light and life that 
 come to men when they unite together 
 in Thy name, and in the name of Thy 
 Son, who giveth light and peace to the 
 world. We rejoice in those who along 
 all these years have here been united in 
 the consent of thought, in the assurance 
 of faith, in the love of what is true and 
 good, and in loyal service in behalf of 
 ideas, of principles, and of conduct. 
 
 We rejoice also in that noble succes- 
 sion in pastoral leadership which has 
 
 Installation of a Pastor. 
 61 
 
62 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 made this Christian society a power in 
 itself, and a growing power to this com- 
 munity for united reciprocal life, in zeal 
 for the promotion of a great cause, in 
 religious earnestness and consecration, in 
 devotion and sacrifice, which have dis- 
 tinguished all these years of a produc- 
 tive history. We remember to-day, 
 therefore, our great inheritance, the rare 
 bequest of thought and character, as 
 from a noble company who here walked 
 and worked together, who lived and died 
 in the faith, and left a holier air to rest 
 upon children and children's children. 
 
 Have regard unto us, to-day, in the 
 special occasion which has brought us to- 
 gether; and have regard unto him, Thy 
 servant, whom we welcome to this place, 
 to the care of this church, to the wide 
 service among the people of a religious 
 teacher and spiritual friend, to the 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 63 
 
 strenuous joy of responsibility, and to 
 the enduring motive of personal en- 
 deavor. Grant that here there may be 
 intelligent sight of the real end of all 
 sympathetic effort for Christian charac- 
 ter and spiritual perfection, wise esti- 
 mate of instituted means for religious 
 accomplishment, and eager, loving use of 
 facility and personal power in reaching 
 and building up individual lives, and in 
 redeeming society to the spirit and tasks 
 of a Christian brotherhood. We thank 
 Thee for the Christian intelligence, the 
 consecrated will, and the holy love, 
 which this minister brings for the preach- 
 er's message and the pastor's care; and 
 we thank Thee also for the appreciative 
 temper of mind, the united wish and 
 prayer, the quick response in affection 
 and service, which here have risen up to 
 meet him, to cheer his coming, and to 
 
64 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 open the way to an enlarging ministra- 
 tion of a religious life. 
 
 Grant to all who are here banded to- 
 gether the will to believe, the will to do, 
 and the will to be; and so may doubt 
 here grow to faith, distrust and fear give 
 place to hope, and sorrow, all bereaved 
 life, find the comfort which makes strong 
 and the peace that passeth knowledge; 
 and over and around and in all, may 
 there be the mastery of a living faith, 
 and the constant sanction which comes 
 of love and obedience. 
 
 And in all our prayer for ourselves to- 
 day, we remember, and beseech Thee to 
 remember and bless, all pastors and 
 churches and congregations of whatever 
 name or communion, in this goodly 
 town; and we beseech Thee for the town 
 itself, that all who live within its borders 
 may be faithful to its history and great 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 65 
 
 traditions. Give unto us, we pray Thee, 
 light and peace, strength and trust, 
 unity and fidelity, that so Thy kingdom 
 may come and Thy will be done on 
 earth as it is in heaven; and unto Thy 
 name be all the glory, through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
(Bntntti* tottf) CfirtJBSt 
 
 GOD, the Giver of light and 
 comfort: We look to Thee who 
 ^!y£jr dost call us to commemorate a 
 great past, and to keep open a faith that 
 looks to a more fervent future. We de- 
 sire to follow the Master's journey, and 
 pause with him as He speaks to needy 
 souls from the hillside, from darkened 
 homes, and, at last, from the seclusion 
 of the upper chamber, recalling all the 
 scenery of a last hour and the power of 
 a personal appeal. We look anew upon 
 the picture, at once so sad and so beau- 
 tiful. We recall, with vivid gladness, 
 the only voice that was inspired to 
 speak; and take to heart the benedic- 
 
 Communion. 
 67 
 
68 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 tion that has spread to all receptive 
 minds and hearts. Here, to-day, we 
 turn to the Saviour's image and pray for 
 more of his Spirit, that temptations may 
 be resisted, and all efforts towards a more 
 positive life in truth and goodness made 
 wiser and stronger. Here, at the table 
 <of our God's communion, we turn all 
 thought of His mercy into an urgent 
 memory. Here also we renew our vows, 
 reconsecrate our friendships, and invoke 
 the shelter of Divine Providence. Here, 
 as at the foot of the cross, help us to lay 
 down the weaknesses that enfeeble, and 
 take up the high resolves which already 
 solace our wills. Oh, for the note of 
 endless aspiration and for the patience 
 of hope, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
3n Grateful ffltmaty 
 
 " God is love ; and he that abideth in love abideth in 
 God, and God abideth in him." 
 
 I John 4: 15. 
 
3 ^fruitful %\it 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father: 
 To whom can we go, but to 
 i5iy£f Thee, who art our strength in 
 weakness, our light in darkness, and our 
 comfort in sorrow? To-day, we know 
 not how to speak to each other, nor how 
 to interpret to ourselves. We turn to 
 Thee, and, first of all, beseech Thee to 
 awaken within us the memory of all that 
 has been precious in the life of our great 
 friend and leader: his wise devotion to 
 the college into which he built his 
 life; his intelligent administration of its 
 affairs in a manifold range of usefulness 
 bearing upon its progress and growing 
 facilities, and in that loving care and in- 
 
 In Memory of E. H. C. 
 71 
 
72 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 terest which reached the endeavor and 
 the struggle of the humblest student. 
 Help us to recall the calmness of his 
 thought, his unselfish regard for others, 
 his generous approval of all that is right 
 and good, and his Christ-like pity and 
 forgiveness toward all the weak and sin- 
 ful. We remember the words, spoken in 
 private and in public, which move us to- 
 day with new power, because of this 
 mystic silence. 
 
 We desire also to remember all that 
 he was and is, and will be to us, as a 
 part of permanent influence in all the 
 relations which distinguished his life: in 
 the privacy of his home, in the mainte- 
 nance of a loyal service to the church, in 
 all his efforts as an educator, and in the 
 ampler calls of citizenship. 
 
 Help us, O God, in our sense of grati- 
 tude for all that this full life has been 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 73 
 
 to us now that we read it anew, know 
 anew its noble witness to learning, to 
 charity, to religion, and get its larger 
 message as from open skies. 
 
 We bow down before Thee, with whom 
 are the issues of life and of death. Help 
 us all to that acquiescence in grief, which, 
 year by year, has been taught from this 
 place, and, above all, breathed in the 
 prayers that here have daily been put 
 up in our behalf. Help these sorrowing 
 teachers who waited for his step, were 
 cheered, day by day, by the denials 
 he so patiently took up, and were in- 
 spired more and more by his confident 
 sympathy. We remember before Thee 
 those who, in great procession along the 
 productive years, moved through these 
 halls, and bore hence the mark of the 
 man they had learned to know, to honor 
 and to love. And grant Thy especial 
 
74 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 favor to the students, in all ranks, and 
 in all places, here and there, who are 
 now enrolled as members of the college. 
 Have regard unto their sad and ques- 
 tioning hours; and give joy to them 
 also, that they came to know so well the 
 man and president who greeted their 
 coming at first. 
 
 And now, what wait we for but for 
 grace and power, both for mind and 
 heart; new motive in view of a great ex- 
 ample; new ability to take up the tasks 
 which a great leader has laid down; 
 and new light, also, for comfort to those 
 whose sorrow to-day is deepest, that 
 there may be to them one fixed and 
 tranquil object of thought and affec- 
 tion; and help us all to see that it is no 
 fractional life that we are called to con- 
 template, but a life, forecast and fash- 
 ioned in accomplishment, opening more 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 75 
 
 and more into its own power and beauty, 
 and, at the last, opening forth towards 
 the realities of a world from which all 
 veils were taken away. O God, most 
 merciful and gracious, open our eyes to 
 that grateful vision, that so we may be 
 enabled to go on, to bear up, and to find 
 our highest joy and peace in the field 
 of duty to which now Thou dost send 
 us back, and in the entrusted daily care 
 to which Thou hast appointed us. Grant 
 that, from the trembling moments of our 
 human life, and from the mourner's 
 watch, we may go forth with uplifted 
 heart, and a diviner purpose, through 
 Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
gfa Cnbotoeb Heaber 
 
 GOD, to whom all life is 
 known, and by whom all hu- 
 ^|y^ man endeavor is inspired and 
 directed: We praise Thee for all great 
 causes, and for the instituted means for 
 their advancement and consummation. 
 Especially do we rejoice in those whom 
 Thou didst raise up and endow to be 
 the world's teachers for the sake of 
 progress, and the world's comforters 
 when thought was darkened, when sor- 
 row's look was downward, and destiny 
 itself was clouded by uncertainty and 
 saddened by distrust. We thank Thee 
 for the early advocacy of the religious 
 ideas and sanctities represented in our 
 
 In Memory of T. J. S. 
 
 77 
 
78 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 present life, and which we reverently 
 associate with the life of the man whom 
 we honor in our studies, in the even 
 temper of our ways, and in the wider 
 horizons for faith and hope. We hear 
 across the years, the strong and eager 
 advocacy of a saner interpretation of 
 Thy Holy Word, of Thy nature, and of 
 human destiny, to the one end of liberty 
 for mind, relief for conscience, and place 
 for affection amid the sorrows of life, 
 and in perplexities concerning the future 
 way. Hear us, O God, in thanksgiv- 
 ing for a marvelous advocacy of Thy 
 Fatherhood, of human brotherhood, and 
 the ampler forms of the spiritual life, 
 that so new impulses might come for 
 worship, for the sources of devotion, and 
 the greater joy. 
 
 We recall to-day the distinctive teach- 
 ing of the great preacher whose throne 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 79 
 
 was the pulpit, and the loving earnest- 
 ness of the generous teacher of young 
 men whose faces were set towards the 
 Christian ministry. A grateful tide 
 from those who have gone the silent 
 way, and from those who, in this world, 
 seek to know their great master, sets 
 towards all the places illumined by 
 his intelligence, cheered by his gracious 
 manner, and inspired by his calmer view 
 of the future life, and of the daily walk. 
 We thank Thee, God, for the light 
 of a great mind, the warmth of a great 
 heart, and for the even culture of our 
 leader whose mission it was to direct 
 and appeal. Hear us, in the name of 
 the years that have given us the calmer 
 sight of a noble man, a wise teacher, and 
 a faithful friend; and help us to inter- 
 pret this life as it now rises up in an en- 
 deared memory, and as seen through 
 
80 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 the love that guarded his home and 
 made gentle his declining years. 
 
 Give to us more and more the charm 
 of an endeared life; and open to us the 
 illumined way of truth, and the wider 
 and wider way of duty. We pray in 
 the name and as the disciples of Jesus 
 Christ. Amen. 
 
0nt Calleb of <&ob 
 
 GOD, who art our strength, 
 grant unto us grace that we 
 *^|=^r may wait for Thy peace and 
 Thy comfort. We bless Thee for all 
 Thy servants who have given their lives 
 for others, that they, too, might live. 
 We especially thank Thee for Thy ser- 
 vant, our brother, who, at the first, 
 sought care and suffering, and found joy 
 in sacrifice, because of profound and 
 affectionate knowledge of the human 
 heart and sympathy with human need. 
 We remember before Thee his years of 
 preparation, and the prayer of his young 
 heart that life might open, more and 
 more, toward the great uses of denial 
 
 In Memory of I. W. C. 
 81 
 
82 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 and mercy. We remember the day of 
 his distinct call, the consecrating words 
 that sent him forth, and the consenting 
 petition that confidence, and courage, 
 and power might come with new respon- 
 sibility, and new duties in the far-off 
 land. We rejoice that, in the untried 
 place, he was eager only for a wise mind 
 and an awakened diligence, that so light 
 might rise up in darkness, and that in 
 Thy light he might see light. 
 
 We rejoice also in his great love for 
 goodness, and its world-wide triumph, 
 and in that patient hopefulness and 
 blessed conservatism of spirit which 
 claimed nothing, but simply went on 
 loving and serving. 
 
 How are we moved in this place to- 
 day as we turn to think of those in the 
 far land and in the churches of his 
 planting, who wait and long for his com- 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 83 
 
 ing! Protect and bless them, and pro- 
 tect and bless and help the messengers 
 of Thy gospel who remain; guide and 
 prosper them in all their holy work and 
 give them joy even in exile and priva- 
 tion. 
 
 And now, O God, most merciful 
 Father, in pity look upon us, who know 
 not how to speak to Thee of the sanc- 
 tities of our human love and the divine 
 intimacies, born of the vigils of sickness 
 amid the endearments of home and in 
 the lonely watch of the sea. Thou dost 
 look down on this faithful sorrow and on 
 these dear and outstretched hands. 
 
 All was bright beyond to the vanish- 
 ing spirit, for there was no eclipse 
 within; and he, who, amid all trial, gave 
 dignity to a great mission, found only 
 the ripeness of blessing and the sweet- 
 ness of heavenly rest. We rejoice that 
 
84 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 eternity was not cheerless to our de- 
 voted friend. Grant, therefore, that our 
 grief may consecrate our deepest affec- 
 tions and interests, and that this, our 
 martyr-soul, may move us to a nobler 
 purpose for great causes and to rever- 
 ence for the saddest need of the world. 
 
 Unite us henceforth to whatever of 
 truth and sanctity has ever dwelt on 
 earth and found its completion at last: 
 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
& Uttmtg Me 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father* 
 All our comfort is in Thee, 
 and in our most loving thought 
 of those who are near Thee. We feel 
 that Thou art near us in our sorrow, and 
 dost help us to see the light that has 
 come to our dearest one, and the light, 
 also, that is for us. We thank Thee for 
 the precious life that has been lived be- 
 fore us. We love to recall what she has 
 been as child, and woman, with all the 
 grace that came through the years of 
 her opening life, in the strength and in 
 the beauty of wifehood and motherhood, 
 and in the tender affection she had for 
 friends, and for those she tried to help. 
 
 In Memory of a Friend. 
 
 85 
 
86 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 We rejoice, also, in what she is to us 
 now, as a risen and translated soul and 
 an abiding presence. We shall not think 
 of her as of yesterday, but of to-day, in 
 all our thought and in all our love of 
 things true and good, in all our en- 
 deavors after a richer life, and in all our 
 efforts to do good and bless others. 
 
 We turn, also, to think of her heav- 
 enly life, her true nativity in the world 
 of the invisible, and the spiritual. Thy 
 love, Thy truth, Thy grace, and Thy 
 peace were already sent into her heart, 
 to be felt more and more when the days 
 of suffering and waiting came. Heaven 
 came to us in the look that grew on her 
 dear face, in the words she spoke, and 
 in the stillness that came at last. We 
 feel that she has entered into nearer 
 oneness with those gone before, and 
 found a more exalted filial affection and 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 87 
 
 a more tender love for the angel-life that 
 came to her arms and bosom. 
 
 Thou hast only taken her from our 
 sight, to fold her more closely as Thine 
 own. And we pray that we may all be 
 more truly Thine own, through her 
 ministry, that all her life in this world 
 may be sacred to us; that we may see 
 how dear and holy it has been, in the 
 home, in the church, and among the 
 people whom she tried to serve, and in 
 the intimacies of the soul that can never 
 be broken. 
 
 Help us to be thankful for these last, 
 peaceful days in her home, where she 
 longed to be, for gentle hands and sus- 
 taining hearts here for her sake. We re- 
 joice in the one great love that cheered 
 and blessed her in suffering, and looked 
 with her into the world of light when it 
 broke over her spirit. 
 
88 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 Give us, we beseech Thee, the com- 
 fort that was hers, and the peace that 
 came as the dawn comes. Help us to 
 hear Thy voice in all this silence, as the 
 new call to patience and hope and duty, 
 the loving voice that bids us go forth 
 without fear or regret. Bless all who 
 are here to-day in this hushed and rev- 
 erent circle. Bless the many friends of 
 our beloved one who are not here, who 
 yet send to us a great tide of affection 
 and appreciating sympathy. Unite us, 
 O God, in a consenting faith, we who 
 long and long for Thy Divine leading, 
 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
9 ftipeneb Hiit 
 
 GOD, our Heavenly Father, 
 we rejoice in the conscious affil- 
 iation with Thyself, for so do 
 we know something of our lot, and of 
 what is above the reach of circumstance. 
 So, also, do we know the unity of our 
 human life and the strength and depth 
 of those affections that bless our home 
 and cheer our ways. 
 
 We thank Thee for the wise love that 
 has been here to bless, to guide, and to 
 comfort from year to year; and, above 
 all, for that ripeness of character, born 
 of trust, and the assurance that the best 
 part of our treasure is with us still, and 
 known to be with us by the very tears 
 we shed, in joy and gladness, as well as 
 
 In Memory of Mrs. R. 
 89 
 
90 LIGHT AND PEACE 
 
 in grief. We think anew to-day of that 
 grace in womanhood which here has 
 done so much to make life lovely, not in 
 aspect, merely, but in reality, and in 
 opening life to others to be an inde- 
 structible possession. We shall miss the 
 familiar object of our affection, but the 
 most precious part in the power of char- 
 acter remains; day by day, year by 
 year, we shall know the strong offices of 
 this mother, to cool the fever of our 
 souls, as once in childhood and youth, 
 to rebuke our disquiet, and to redeem 
 our life unto peace. How can we thank 
 Thee, God, for the lives that leave 
 our earth with benedictions; and how 
 bless Thee for their guidance in dark 
 places, for their cheer in our toil, and 
 for their abiding love amid all care. If 
 we, at times, weep their tears, help us 
 to see that we can win their peace. 
 
LIGHT AND PEACE 91 
 
 In the days to come, bless us in the 
 memory of one who has been and is so 
 dear to us; comfort and help us with 
 the assurance of virtues that can never 
 be absent; and give us, more and more, 
 the vision of a blessed future for the 
 soul's wonder, for growing faculties, and 
 for an enduring life. Through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
j§ Htfe of peauttful ^erbice 
 
 GOD, our heavenly Father: 
 We look to Thee as the source 
 •^|y^ of our life, and the Giver of 
 all good, who hast led us in ways we 
 knew not, and wilt bring us home at 
 last. We rejoice in all Thy guidance 
 when or where we cannot see the path, 
 and even when the way lies through clouds. 
 
 We know that Thou art with us in the 
 night as in the day, in our weakness as 
 in our strength, in our sorrow as in our 
 joy, and that Thou wilt never leave nor 
 forsake us. 
 
 When our friends go from our sight, 
 we know that they are not beyond Thy 
 care and leading. Thou hast taught us 
 that they have but stepped aside to take 
 
 In Memory of B. B. C. 
 93 
 
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 a divergent path that rises more and 
 more into light. 
 
 We thank Thee for the dear life that 
 has now gone to the ampler world. 
 
 We thank Thee for what she has been 
 to us here in this life — the dear sister, the 
 loving aunt, the constant friend — wise 
 to us in all her words and wishes, gentle 
 in all her intercourse with us, full of the 
 encouragement of affection, strong and 
 eager for our comfort. 
 
 We thank Thee also for what we have 
 been enabled to be to her; for the ten- 
 derness and unwearied watch-care, day 
 by day, week by week, that has been 
 here, to be hands and thought, that her 
 care be not too great, and that she 
 might be strong in days of weakness. 
 We bless Thee, also, that at the last, 
 when the upper voices must have been 
 more distinct to her than any tones of 
 
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 this world can ever be, that those most 
 dear to her were with her in all the lov- 
 ing silence. 
 
 And hear now our prayer for our- 
 selves, that we may see and know that 
 death is of Thy ordaining as well as life, 
 and be cheered by all the witnesses of 
 the spirit, and by Him, above all, who 
 is our Saviour, who has told us of the 
 many-mansioned house of the Father, 
 and marked all the way before us into 
 light and immortality. Thou wilt open 
 the door to us as to our sister and friend, 
 and to all who have gone before, the 
 aged, the strong, and the little children. 
 May we learn to wait amid all our 
 weakness and fear, keeping our minds 
 open to Thy message, and our hearts 
 more and more to Thy peace. 
 
 Hear us, O God, as the disciples of 
 Thy Son. Amen. 
 
£ Me of (grace anb $otoer 
 
 GOD, Thou who art love and 
 who doest all things in love, 
 •^|y£f all that Thou sendest and all 
 that Thou givest, Thou dost give and 
 send in love. Our life, in its source and 
 in its discipline and in its results, is out 
 of Thy creative and ever-watchful and 
 directing will. All that we have in 
 home, in companionship, in the affec- 
 tion of parents and of children, and in 
 daily care and daily good, is from Thee, 
 and of Thy great mercy to us. 
 
 Help us to see also that all that Thou 
 takest from us, in our most cherished 
 objects, our most costly treasure, the 
 one that is dearest to thought and dear- 
 est to love, even the most blessed gift of 
 
 In Memory of A. H. 
 97 
 
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 Thyself and Thy spirit, — help us to see 
 that this too is of Thy love, and is of 
 Thy great mercy towards us. So we 
 thank Thee to-day for the life of this 
 mother and friend; for all that she has 
 been to us in shaping influence in the 
 lives of children and grandchildren; for 
 the power of that truth in character, 
 that sweetness of love, that greatness of 
 faith and hope, which transcends our 
 best words, and flows around and en- 
 ters into our lives and characters to 
 make them strong and to give them 
 motive. We have not any of us known 
 all Thy goodness to this one dear life, 
 until now that silence has come to these 
 lips and stillness to this face and breast. 
 We rejoice even that Thou dost so order 
 that more and more shall be seen and 
 known, as we live on in renewing mem- 
 ory of the good; and daily bring up in 
 
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 more vivid thought and quicker love, 
 the precious image of our mother, and 
 friend, interpreting words and deeds in 
 larger, truer, better ways, and seeing all 
 the character in stronger and more 
 lovely aspects. So is it with children 
 and children's children here to-day, and 
 so is it with friends who have come 
 hither w T ith voiceless love to bid fare- 
 well to the familiar features, and give 
 new and faithful speed to the risen and 
 newly clothed spirit. 
 
 And while we thank Thee for all that 
 this mother has been to us, we pray that 
 some new emphasis out of our hearts 
 may be given to what we have been en- 
 abled to be to her. How good and com- 
 forting to recall what, as sons and 
 daughters, we have been to this dear 
 one, especially in all these recent years. 
 Renew within us the sanctities, we pray 
 
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 Thee, that have been the occasion of our 
 most helpful words and actions. We 
 praise and bless Thee that, to the last, 
 this dear mother had the grateful and 
 most reverent care, was the object of a 
 watching and waiting love, of an eager, 
 anxious affection. Hear, to-day, the un- 
 spoken prayer of all these hearts, and 
 grant Thy peace and Thy assurance 
 unto them. Help us all to look up, and 
 so enable our minds that things unseen 
 shall seem and be the more real things to 
 us. And while we patiently wait and 
 work, give to us growing vision of those 
 who walk in glorious company amid 
 diviner scenes. Help us to reach forth 
 for the descending mantle of our sainted 
 ones, and, above all, help us to live in 
 the light of their brightening lives. And 
 of Thy great love, bless us and keep us. 
 Through Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
3n Htfe'ss Cbenms 
 
 ' Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the 
 evening to rejoice." 
 
 Psalm 65 : 8. 
 
jfor tfje dottier to Reflect 
 
 HAT need is there, O God, for 
 me to turn my thought back 
 that I may read anew the 
 silent way, and anew compute the way 
 that opens before my feet — most of all 
 before my thought and love? In all 
 things, help me to aspire, that the up- 
 ward way may be open, becoming more 
 and more an endowed path. Help me 
 to see the way I have come — what toils 
 and care have been met, what obstacles 
 in the climbing way, and what promise 
 lies along the road that leads to mastery 
 and the Saviour's rest. Nor can I for- 
 get that it is the rest after active toil, 
 born of choice amid the world's need, 
 and, also, after the accepted toil for the 
 sake of those who suffer and wait. 
 
 103 
 
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 Now, when the years are few, and I 
 reach out for the beckoning hands, give 
 light and strength, that all the past may 
 have aspects of promise and all the 
 future the glory of an accomplished 
 peace. Comfort me in view of all life's 
 sad days; and in Thy forgiving mercy, 
 give light. Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje Jleto Baton 
 
 GOD, how else shall we think 
 of the soul's new life than as 
 ■^H^jf 1 the dawn of a new day? So 
 has it appeared to Christians all along 
 the way from the earliest diseipleship. 
 It is good to think of religion as a first 
 touch of light and warmth, as it comes 
 to heal, to start growth, and to open 
 life into beauty and fragrance. So will 
 life come to many a silent soul; so will 
 it come to wasting lives under the stress 
 of sorrow, and to many a strained and 
 watching eye turned to the brightening 
 future. Nor do I put up this prayer for 
 a future morning in some far-off world, 
 but for the glow of life and the kindled 
 glory of a soul that daily fronts its im- 
 
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 mortality. And yet, who can doubt the 
 effect of the new radiance that will dawn 
 for the soul when at last the happier 
 season breaks over its wonder? Oh, for 
 a growing life amid all our cares, and 
 amid all the ministry of our waiting; 
 and may joy and quietude be ours when 
 the emancipated soul rises to repose! 
 May life refresh while we stay. May 
 life break over us in the expectation of 
 the new dawn when we go. Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje foul's! Hiit m (Sob 
 
 ERE to-day, in life's evening, 
 may I rest in Thee, who art 
 the Eternal One and the Heav- 
 enly Father, the Divine Energy that 
 always gives itself to deliver from the 
 low place of struggle! And, yet, I am 
 to govern myself for the sake of charac- 
 ter in the name of destiny, of salvation 
 and of heaven! For these I am to wait, 
 and not for any mere transfer to an 
 upper abode. And yet, may I be saved 
 from the self-culture that ends in itself, 
 wholly ignorant of the law of service. 
 More and more, the question of life is, 
 What shall I do with my wider thought, 
 my deeper feeling, my abiding skill? 
 Shall I set them down to the account of 
 
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 place or station, or to the real account 
 of spiritual force and inward life? Here, 
 where I am, may I live in self-denial, in 
 sympathy, in devotion for the larger 
 self, indeed, and yet more for the joy 
 and the peace of the world in the service 
 of humanity. 
 
 Above all, therefore, may I see that 
 religion is a near quality. The word of 
 faith, the energy of the spirit, is in the 
 mind and heart. O God, Thou art near. 
 Christianity is near to meet every crisis 
 in history. We draw nigh to Thee and 
 take up the ascent to the eternal life. 
 Amen. 
 
Jfor tfie $otoer to ^sfptre 
 
 OW, O Lord, can I become 
 a real disciple of Jesus, the 
 Christ, so that all thought and 
 feeling may be shaped into character, 
 and character itself shaped into the 
 divine likeness? While I rejoice in the 
 freedom which comes of good habits, I 
 rejoice more in the soul's relationship to 
 an eternal world towards which man 
 may constantly aspire. I thank Thee, 
 therefore, for life's inspirations, which 
 are better than all rules and detail of 
 conduct. That to which man aspires 
 touches the soul in the deeper places, 
 and helps him to discover the power 
 of a spiritual world, and to cast the real 
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 responds to deep; and a tide of the 
 spirit forever obeys the heavenly attrac- 
 tions! Oh, that I may be moved and 
 drawn by the power and the light that 
 are from above! May I have the pas- 
 sion for righteousness, for Thou, O God, 
 hast made man for Thyself. More and 
 more may I yield to life's inspirations, 
 through him who is the Life of life. 
 Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje (grace of <^ob 
 
 THOU, who didst give grace for 
 man's salvation: All Thy great 
 ^|y^ injunctions and precepts rest 
 on the truth of Thy favor made to ap- 
 pear to all men. It is Thy grace appear- 
 ing to all men which gives us ground for 
 hope, and direction for our whole life. 
 Help us, therefore, to take our life as a 
 reality — as having worth and dignity, 
 to be lived in truth, and in that earnest- 
 ness which saves life from failure. Keep 
 us all in the desire of an accomplished 
 good. Help us to see that the grace of 
 God is here and now, saving us, and 
 helping us to save others by the very 
 processes of the spirit, by which God's 
 
 own grace becomes man's noblest service. 
 
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 Save us, O God, from formal obser- 
 vances, and help us to share Thy nature 
 and destiny, so that we may always be 
 in Thee, and always rest in an assured 
 immortality. Amen. 
 
Jfor tfje &oul'* ^oberetgntp 
 
 EAR, O God, my prayer for 
 the control of my fears and my 
 desires, that I may use them 
 to the one end of proper balance in char- 
 acter, and that the soul may stand master 
 over all. Help me to see that the high 
 mark of manhood is the self-governing 
 temper by which the man not only con- 
 trols the self, but puts himself in accord 
 with all that stands secure, and is fair 
 and good. Save me, therefore, from all 
 vagrancy of thought, from all selfish 
 will, from all wasteful affections, that so 
 I may work in harmony with Thy com- 
 plete order, seeing and knowing, day by 
 day, that the majesty of all conduct is in 
 the motive that fills and guides it. All 
 
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 motive begins and ends in Thee, who art 
 the secret of all methods. Right is 
 right because Thou art right and good; 
 and right is right in our human life, 
 because Thou dost bind us to duty be- 
 yond all the force of custom. 
 
 Teach me the splendor of life's high 
 achievement in spiritual manhood; and 
 keep before me the attractions of duty, 
 and the power of an endless life. Help 
 me to see how ample is the scope of man's 
 life in capacity, in sympathy, and in 
 enthusiasms. Amen. 
 
Jfor tlje enterprise of Hobe 
 
 GOD, Thou didst frame the 
 human mind and give all view- 
 less emotions. Thou didst give 
 the majesty of hope, the enterprise of 
 love, and the springs of power. Help 
 me, therefore, to guard these, our highest 
 faculties, so that I may never suffer 
 them to be put aside by fear or conven- 
 ience, or to be stifled by any doubt. 
 Help me, and those with whom my life 
 is cast, to aim at perfection. Teach me 
 to keep pure the standard within, to 
 avoid all sudden spasms of thought and 
 feeling, to keep healthy the desire for 
 permanent good, and to win the ascent 
 step by step. 
 
 For what more can I ask in the spirit 
 
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 of faith, and in view of the whole realm 
 of things open to conviction and to con- 
 science? Give me the careful steps of 
 thought; above all, give me the haunt- 
 ing sense of the infinite and the perfect, 
 amid all the shifting borders of knowl- 
 edge. 
 
 O Thou, to whom belongeth the un- 
 seen rule of the world, may I be Thy 
 subject in obedience, and in trust. This 
 is my low-breathed prayer amid all the 
 silences of secluded years. Amen. 
 
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