Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1919 — Robert Louie Stevenson’s Prayer. [ARTICLE]

Robert Louie Stevenson’s Prayer.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s last prayer tells us how all great men live by faith of the life immortal. Assembling his servants, at the end of the day, in his house In Samos, he prayed: “Behold us with favor, folk of many families and nations; gathered together in the peace of this room. Weak men and women, subsisting under the covert of thy patience, be patient still. Suffer us yet a while longer, with our broken purposes of good, with out idle endeavor against evil. Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these must be taken, brace us to play the man under affliction. Call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts, eager to labor, eager to be happy, If happiness shall be our portion, and, If the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure.” —From a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis at Brooklyn, N. Y.