You know how our wonderful old Catechism interprets for us the meaning of the Lord's Prayer. "I desire my Lord God cur Heavenly Father Who is the giver of all goodnesss that He will send His grace to me and to all people that we may worship Him, serve Him, and obey Him as_we ought to do: And I pray unto God that He will send us all things needful both for our souls and bodies, and that He will merciful unto us and forgive us our sing and that it will please. Him to save and defend us "IW all dangers, ghostly and bodily and that He will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death and this I trust He will do of His mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, I say Amen: 5o be it'
What is omitted that we can think of? Surely nothing; "all things needful both for souls' and bodies," "all dangers ghostly and bodily," "all sin and wickedness'—all our needs, our hopes, our dangers are provided for in the scope of this wonderful pra: er: And so today we see Moses praying on the hillside, backed up by Aaron and Hur lest he faint in his loneliness praying for Joshua and the young men who are in the battle on the plains below—and we too pray for our gallant beys fighting their battles and ours on the sea and under the sea, on land and in the air—we must not grow faint but help we another as Moses and Aaron and Hur did till victory is won. We pray for the victory of good over evil and hardly ever in the world's history were the issues so plainly set—life and death, good and evil—right and wrong, as they are in the warfare we fight now.
We pray too to know more and more of God's will as in the Epistle for today—to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we may be filled with all the fulness of God. Yes, we pray for all -things needful both for our souls and bodies for God's help in all dangers ghostly and bodily and for deliverance from all sin and wickedness, and to know the will of God.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.