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THE LORD'S PRAYER

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 7.

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THE LORD'S PRAYER

By Thomas Sturtevant, Jr.

BEAUTIFULLY paraphrased into an acrostic, by Thomas Sturtevant, Jr., a soldier of the 29th U. S. Infantry, and a prisoner of war in the province of Upper Canada during the war of 1812–15.
OUR Lord and King who reigns enthroned on high! FATHER of light! mysterious deity! WHO art the great I AM, the last, the first, ART righteous, holy, merciful and just, IN realms of glory, scenes where angels sing; HEAVEN is the dwelling place of God our King, HALLOWED the name which doth all names transcend, BE thou adored, our great Almighty Friend, THY glory shines beyond creation's space, NAME in the book of justice and of grace; THY kingdom towers above the starry skies; KINGDOMS satanic fall, but thine shall rise, COME, let thine empire come, O thou Holy One, THY great and everlasting will be done! WILL God make known his will, his power display? BE it the will of mortals to obey! DONE is the great and wondrous work of love, ON Calvary's cross he died, but reigns above; EARTH bears the record in thy holy word. AS Heaven adores thy name, let earth, O Lord! IT shines transcendent in the eternal skies, IS praised in Heaven, for man the Saviour dies! IN songs immortal, angels laud his name, HEAVEN shouts with joy, and saints his love proclaim. GIVE us, O Lord, our food, nor cease to give US that food on which our souls may live! THIS be our boon to-day and days to come, DAY without end in our eternal home! OUR needy souls supply from day to day. DAILY assist and aid us when we pray. BREAD, though we ask, yet Lord thy blessing lend, AND make us grateful when thy gifts descend. FORGIVE our sins, which in instruction place US, the vile children of a rebel race. OUR follies, faults, and trespasses, forgive, DEBTS which we ne'er can pay, or thou receive, AS we, O Lord, our neighbors' faults o'erlook, WE beg thou'dst blot out from thy memory's book. FORGIVE our enemies, extend thy grace OUR souls to save, o'en Adam's guilty race! DEBTORS to thee in gratitude and love, AND in that duty paid by saints above. LEAD us from sin, and in thy mercy raise US from the tempter and his hellish ways. NOT in our own, but in his, name who bled, INTO thine ear we pour our every need. TEMPTATION'S fatal charms help us to shun, BUT may we conquer through thy conquering Son. DELIVER us from all which can annoy US in this world, and may our souls destroy. FROM all calamities which men betide, EVIL and death, oh! turn our feet aside; FOR we are mortal men and cleave to clay, THINE 'tis to rule and mortals to obey. IS not thy mercy, Lord, forever free? THE whole creation knows no God but thee. KINGDOM and empire in thy presence fall; THE King eternal reigns the king of all. POWER is with thee—to thee be glory given, AND be thy name adored by earth and Heaven. THE praise of saints and angels is thine own; GLORY to thee, thou everlasting One. FOREVER be thy holy name adored! AMEN, Hosanna! blessed be the Lord!