Oh God, our Father, Thou Searcher of men's hearts,
help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth.
May our religion be filled with gladness and
may our worship of Thee be natural.
Strengthen and increase our admiration
for honest dealing and clean thinking,
and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy
and pretence ever to diminish...
Make us to choose the harder right
instead of the easier wrong, and never to
be content with a half truth when the
whole truth can be won...
All of which we ask in the name of the
great Friend and Master of men.
Reverend Clayton Wheat, “Acquit Ourselves Like Men,” Guideposts, June 1948, 8 as quoted in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.245, 246
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