KINGS PRAYER.
OF USE FOR BOYS.
"Make Me Obedient to the Rules
of the Game."
CRICKETER-PARSON SPEAKS.
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, October 17,
The Rev. Frank Gillingham, the prominent cricketer, preaching at Christchurch East, Sheen, Richmond, quoted a prayer a copy of which hangs in the private rooms of Sandringham.
He said His Majesty recently expressed the opinion that it might well be placed in the hands of every public schoolboy.
The prayer runs: "Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game. Teach me neither to cry for the moon or over spilt milk.
"Help me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, cleaving to the one and despising the other. Help me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap praise.
"If I am called upon to suffer let me be like the well-bred -beast who goes away and suffers in silence. Teach me to win when I may, and if I may not win, then above all, I pray, make me a good loser."—(Sydney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 246, 18 October 1927, Page 7
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171KINGS PRAYER. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 246, 18 October 1927, Page 7
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