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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1886

A LAST PRAYER.

By H. H.

FATHER, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, That I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun;

So clear I see that things I thought Were right or harmless were a sin; So clear I see that I have sought, Unconscious, selfish aims to win;

So clear I see that I have hurt The souls I might have helped to save, That I have slothful been, inert, Deaf to the calls thy leaders gave.

In outskirts of thy kingdom vast, Father, the humblest spot give me; Set me the lowliest task thou hast, Let me, repentant, work for thee.

—H. H., in the Century Magazine.