Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — Robert Louis Stevenson's Prayer. [ARTICLE]

Robert Louis Stevenson's Prayer.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s last prayer telM us how all great men live by faith of the life immortal. Assembling bls servants, St the end of the day, in’hfs house in Samoa, 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 thypatienee.be patient still. Suffer us yet’U while longer, with our broken purposes Of good, with bur Idle endeavor agalhst evil. Bless to US our extraordinary mercies ; if the day come when these must be taken, brace us to play the-nmn under affliction. Cail 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.