Our Daily Bread by Susan Marr Spalding

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1902

Our Daily Bread

By Susan Marr Spalding

“GIVE us this day our daily bread.” This was the simple prayer we said In childhood, at the mother's knee, Like birds that clamor to be fed, In their soft nests, no doubt nor dread For all to-morrow's needs had we.

Now to our hearts, with care o’ergrown, A deep and thrilling undertone Rings clear through all that Jesus said. The sweet old words we used to speak Still hold whatever good we seek— “Give us this day our daily bread.”

O Thou, who never yet hath ceased To shed thy bounty o’er the least Of all thy creatures, far and wide, “Give us this day our daily bread.” So shall we with thy love be fed, And in thy fullness, satisfied.

— Susan Marr Spalding, in Congregationalist.