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prayers written at vailima(维利马# 祈祷)-第2部分

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                            AT MORNING 



    THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns 

and duties。 Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter 

and    kind  faces;   let  cheerfulness   abound    with   industry。  Give   us  to  go 

blithely on our business all this day; bring us to our resting beds weary and 

content and undishonoured; and grant us in the end the gift of sleep。 



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                                  EVENING 



     WE     come     before    Thee;   O    Lord;   in   the  end    of  thy   day    with 

thanksgiving。 

     Our beloved in the far parts of the earth; those who are now beginning 

the labours of the day what time we end them; and those with whom the 

sun   now   stands   at   the   point   of   noon;   bless;   help;   console;   and   prosper 

them。 

     Our guard is relieved; the service of the day is over; and the hour come 

to rest。 We resign into thy hands our sleeping bodies; our cold hearths; and 

open doors。 Give us to awake with smiles; give us to labour smiling。 As 

the sun returns in the east; so let our patience be renewed with dawn; as 

the   sun   lightens   the   world;   so   let   our   loving…kindness   make   bright   this 

house of our habitation。 



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             ANOTHER FOR EVENING 



     LORD; receive our supplications for this house; family; and   country。 

Protect the innocent; restrain the greedy and the treacherous; lead us out of 

our tribulation into a quiet land。 

     Look   down   upon   ourselves   and   upon   our   absent   dear   ones。   Help   us 

and   them;   prolong   our   days   in   peace   and   honour。   Give   us   health;   food; 

bright weather; and light hearts。 In what we meditate of evil; frustrate our 

will; in what of good; further our endeavours。 Cause injuries to be forgot 

and benefits to be remembered。 

     Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation。 For 

his sake; in whose words we now conclude。 



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                       IN TIME OF RAIN 



    WE thank Thee; Lord; for the glory of the late days and the excellent 

face of thy sun。 We thank Thee for good news received。 We thank Thee for 

the pleasures we have enjoyed and for those we have been able to confer。 

And now; when the clouds gather and the rain impends over the forest and 

our house; permit us not to be cast down; let us not lose the savour of past 

mercies and past pleasures; but; like the voice of a bird singing in the rain; 

let grateful memory survive in the hour of darkness。 If there be in front of 

us any painful duty; strengthen us with the grace of courage; if any act of 

mercy; teach us tenderness and patience。 



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          ANOTHER IN TIME OF RAIN 



     LORD;  Thou   sendest   down   rain   upon   the   uncounted   millions   of   the 

forest; and givest the trees to drink exceedingly。 We are here upon this isle 

a few handfuls of men; and how many myriads upon myriads of stalwart 

trees! Teach us the lesson of the trees。 The sea around us; which this rain 

recruits;   teems   with   the   race   of   fish;   teach   us;   Lord;   the   meaning   of   the 

fishes。   Let   us   see   ourselves   for   what   we   are;   one   out   of   the   countless 

number   of   the   clans   of   thy   handiwork。   When   we   would   despair;   let   us 

remember that these also please and serve Thee。 



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              BEFORE A TEMPORARY 

                          SEPARATION 



    TO…DAY we go forth separate; some of us to pleasure; some of us to 

worship;   some   upon   duty。   Go   with   us;   our   guide   and   angel;   hold   Thou 

before us in our divided paths the mark of our low calling; still to be true 

to   what   small   best  we  can  attain  to。  Help  us  in  that;   our  maker;  the 

dispenser of events … Thou; of the vast designs; in which we blindly labour; 

suffer us to be so far constant to ourselves and our beloved。 



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                             FOR FRIENDS 



     FOR   our   absent   loved   ones   we   implore   thy   loving…kindness。   Keep 

them   in   life;   keep   them   in   growing   honour;   and   for   us;   grant   that   we 

remain worthy of their love。 For Christ's sake; let not our beloved blush 

for us; nor we for them。 Grant us but that; and grant us courage to endure 

lesser   ills   unshaken;   and   to   accept   death;   loss;   and   disappointment   as   it 

were straws upon the tide of life。 



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                        FOR THE FAMILY 



     AID us; if it be thy will; in our concerns。 Have mercy on this land and 

innocent people。 Help them who this day contend in disappointment with 

their   frailties。   Bless   our   family;   bless   our   forest   house;   bless   our   island 

helpers。 Thou   who hast   made   for us this   place of   ease   and hope;  accept 

and inflame our gratitude; help us to repay; in service one to another; the 

debt of thine unmerited benefits and mercies; so that; when the period of 

our   stewardship   draws   to   a   conclusion;   when   the   windows   begin   to   be 

darkened; when the bond of the family is to be loosed; there shall be no 

bitterness of remorse in our farewells。 

     Help us to look back on the long way that Thou hast brought us; on the 

long days in which we have been served; not according to our deserts; but 

our   desires;   on   the   pit   and   the   miry   clay;   the   blackness   of   despair;   the 

horror of misconduct; from which our feet have been plucked out。 For our 

sins forgiven or prevented; for our shame unpublished; we bless and thank 

Thee; O God。 Help us yet again and ever。 So order events; so strengthen 

our frailty; as that day by day we shall come before Thee with this song of 

gratitude; and in the end we be dismissed with honour。 In their weakness 

and their fear; the vessels of thy handiwork so pray to Thee; so praise Thee。 

Amen。 



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                                     SUNDAY 



     WE     beseech     Thee;   Lord;   to  behold    us   with   favour;   folk   of  many 

families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof; weak men 

and   women   subsisting   under   the   covert   of   thy  patience。   Be   patient   still; 

suffer us yet awhile longer; … with our broken purposes of good; with our 

idle endeavours against evil; suffer us awhile longer to endure; and (if it 

may be) help us to do better。 Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the 

day   come   when   these   must   be   taken;   brace   us   to   play   the   man   under 

affliction。 Be with our friends; be with ourselves。 Go with each of us to 

rest; if any awake; temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when 

the day returns; return to us; our sun and comforter; and call us up with 

morning   faces   and   with   morning   hearts   …   eager   to   labour   …   eager   to   be 

happy;   if   happiness   shall   be   our   portion   …   and   if   the   day   be   marked   for 

sorrow; strong to endure it。 

     We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of him to whom this 

day is sacred; close our oblation。 



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                      FOR SELF…BLAME 



     LORD; enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye; and blind 

us to the mote   that is in our brother's。 Let us feel our offences with our 

hands;   make   them   great   and   bright   before   us   like   the   sun;   make   us   eat 

them and drink them for our diet。 Blind us to the offences of our beloved; 

cleanse them from our memories; take them out of our mouths for ever。 

Let all here before Thee carry and measure with the false balances of love; 

and be in their own eyes and in all conjunctures the most guilty。 Help us at 

the same time with the grace of courage; that we be none of us
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