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| Emma Curtis Hopkins |
Emma Curtis Hopkins giving the Lords Prayer at the
Association Meeting
January 29th 1889
Then He offered up a
prayer just like a petition for help, filled with, the faith of its all coming
to pass:
"Our Father, which art in heaven"
"
The Father is All, and we are in Him, How quickly we feel sheltered in God when
we remember that God is All and we ate in God, and then say, " Our Father,
which art in heaven'' Harmony is the peace which makes life glad. We are
sometimes glad and at peace and we say: This is heaven. Oh! the peace wherein
God reigns — That is heaven. If God is Peace, and we are in God, then we are in
Peace, So when we say, "Which art in Heaven," we feel that we also
are in heaven.
"Hallowed Be Thy name"
Sacred
and lovely art Thou in whom we rest.
"Thy kingdom come,"
Let
Thy peace come down. Let Thy enfolding goodness now shine over and around us
that the nations may walk in the light of it,
"Thy will be done."
Thy will is the perfect fulfilling of our heart's
desire. If we let our own will fall, dissolve, melt away into the
markless silence then Thy will, will be found done in its glory. Oh! let "Thy
will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." Let the country where we
wander be at peace because the people hear Thy words and know that they too
dwell safely with us, sheltered in Thee,
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our
debtor's."
Not
as we used to forgive when we knew not that we were in Thee and of Thee and at
peace, but now that we do know. How blessed our forgiveness now.
How divinely like Thee is our remembering our neighbor's indebtedness or wrong
no more against him forever! So Thou in dealing with us wilt be divinely
forgetful.
And "Lead
us not into temptation"
See: Thou art
powerful and canst oft remind us so that we shall not hear error whisper of
anything unlike this Presence we art now so safely folded within. Nothing can
deceive us.
"But deliver us from evil,"
Ah! Yes, compel us
to remember Thee. Wrench us violently from belief that there is any other love
or life worth while. When we hear human voices say honor and. fame and the ways
of gain are good, compel us to see that they are good only after knowing Thee.
Deliver us by making the old earthly ways so sharp and hard that we can not
walk them.
"For thine is the Kingdom,"
Omnipresent,
from "which we go not out forevermore.
"Thine the power,"
To
accomplish all that we can name of goodness, and thine all glory.
