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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 30, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 33.

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The Home Circle.

By Mary Howitt

THE CHILDREN'S PRAYER.

Eloquent the children's faces— Poverty's lean look which saith: Save us! save us! Woe surrounds us. Little knowledge sore confounds us. Life is but a lingering death!
Give us light amid our darkness; Let us know the good from ill; Hate us not for all our blindness; Love us; lead us; show us kindness; You can make us what you will.
We are willing; we are ready; We will learn if you will teach; We have hearts that yearn toward duty; We have minds alive to beauty; Souls that any heights can reach.
Raise us by your Christian knowledge; Consecrate to man our powers; Let us take our proper station; We, the rising generation; Let us stamp the stage as ours.
Look into our childish faces, See ye not our willing hearts? Only love us; only lead us; Only let us know you need us, And we all will do our parts.
Train us! try us! days slide onward, They can ne'er be ours again. Save us! save from our undoing; Save from ignorance and ruin; Make us worthy to be MEN!
Send us out the world to better! Send us forth good seed to sow! We may be our fathers' teachers; We may be the mightiest preachers In the day that dawneth now!
Such the children's mute appealing! Who will answer? Who will hear? Who will hear this cry of sadness? Who will answer it in gladness? Helping those to Christ so dear! —Mary Howitt, in Baptist Flag.