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.