AUTHOR: Jane Austen
TOPIC: Evening Prayer
SOURCE: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
We Thank Thee with all our hearts for every gracious dispensation, for all blessings that have attended our lives, for every hour of safety, health, and peace, of domestic comfort and innocent enjoyment.
We feel that we have been blessed far beyond any thing that we have deserved; and though we cannot but pray for a continuance of all these mercies, we acknowledge our unworthiness of them and implore thee to pardon the presumption of our desires.
Keep us oh! Heavenly Father, from evil this night.
Bring us in safety to the beginning of another day and grant that we may rise again with every serious and religious feeling which now directs us.
May thy mercy be extended over all mankind, bringing the ignorant to the knowledge of thy truth, awakening the impenitent, touching the hardened.
Look with compassion upon the afflicted of every condition, assuage the pangs of disease, comfort the broken in spirit.
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