Ancient of Days, (hearken)

Where is a mouth in Thee, that thou mightest speak

to man?

Where is a heart, to get knowledge and understand

ing?

Where be the feet, that thou mightest visit us in every place?

Yet art Thou mighty alone of all to receive prayer and almighty likewise to succour! (hearken)

The Rock not like a man, yet hearkens to

man's prayer

(Ancient of Days, hearken)

"I have desired, with my little ones, yea, I have greatly desired

To walk with them ever further forth in the way of

life,

Without anguish to them, and without sickness,

(hearken)

Over the second, the third, ay, the fourth hill, and beyond!"

Prayer for long life with the Rock

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Ancient of Days, hearken, I do beseech thee
Give ear graciously unto my prayer!
Ancient of Days, we do beseech thee, hearken,
Though my speech be feeble and no skill be mine,
Ancient of Days, to the cry of the children, hearken!

Prayer for the answer to Prayer

AN OFFICE OF PRAYER AND PRAISE FOR

AMERICAN PUBLIC HOLY DAYS

AN OFFICE OF PRAYER AND PRAISE FOR

AMERICAN PUBLIC HOLY DAYS

(N. B. Hymn numbers refer to the Episcopal Hymnal)

(Processional Hymn 194, "God of our Fathers whose Almighty Hand.")

I. THE PRELUDE, The Old World to the New (Shelley). (a) The Ancient World of Violence.

(b) The New World.

(c) The Secret of Political Greatness.

(Hymn 418, "O God, our Help in Ages Past.")

II. OUR HERITAGE

(1) The Confession of the American:

(a) Columbus and Liberty, Recitative (Lowell).
(b) The American Doctrine of the Individual,
Recitation in Unison (Emerson).

(c) Freedom and Knowledge, Recitative (Lowell).

(2) First Reading, in Praise of George Washington:—
(a) Jefferson's Tribute.

(b) Lowell's Tribute.

(3) Congregational Responsive Reading:—

The Prayer of Columbus (Whitman).

(4) Second Reading, in Praise of Abraham Lincoln:-
(a) Lowell's Tribute.

(b) Lincoln's Premonitory Dream.

(c) Apology of London "Punch" (Tom Taylor).
(5) Voluntary: O Captain! My Captain! (Whitman).
(6) Third Reading, in Praise of Our Country:—

(a) Vision of our Country as our Mother (Lowell).
(b) Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood (Whitman).
(7) Congregational Responsive Reading :—

Passage to India (Whitman).

(Hymn 196, "America.")

III. ADDRESS ON THE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC

IV. OFFERTORY: KIPLING'S "RECESSIONAL"

Offering for Red Cross Relief, Poland, Serbia, Belgium.

V. BIDDING PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY

Introductory.

(1) Invitation. A Bidding to Prayer (Phillips Brooks).
(2) A Group of Collects for the People:-

(a) Patrick Henry; (b) Declaration of Independence
(Jefferson); (c) Samuel Adams; (d) Ordinance
Northwest Territory (Jefferson); (e) and (f)
The Constitution; (g) Daniel Webster; (h)
George Washington.

(3) A Group of Collects for the Government:—

(a) Benjamin Franklin; (b) George Washington; (c), (d) and (e) Abraham Lincoln; (f) James Russell Lowell.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

(Recessional Hymn 195, "O God of our Fathers, bless this our land.")

AN OFFICE OF PRAYER AND PRAISE FOR AMERICAN

PUBLIC HOLY DAYS

COMPILED CHIEFLY FROM THE WORKS OF OUR STATESMEN AND POETS

I. THE PRELUDE

THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW

THE ANCIENT WORLD OF VIOLENCE

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said, Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

THE NEW WORLD

The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,

The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:

Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

A brighter Hellas rears its mountains
From waves serener far;

A new Penëus rolls its fountains

Against the morning-star.
Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep
Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.

A loftier Argo cleaves the main,
Fraught with a later prize;
Another Orpheus sings again,

And loves, and weeps, and dies.
A new Ulysses leaves once more
Calypso for his native shore.