AN INSPIRATION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 61, Issue 4341, 4 October 1940, Page 4

AN INSPIRATION

AN APPROPRIATE PRAYER. LOCAL DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. Every Thursday morning, most of the pupils of the District High School assemble in the Hall for a short religious service, conducted by the Rev. M. G. Sullivan. Two hymns are sung, there is a short prayer of invocation, the Lord’s Prayer and the School Prayer, and a reading from the Bible with a brief explanation of the passage read. The school prayer was composed by R. L. Stevenson, and its appropriateness at the present time has frequently been commented upon by the vicar. The wording is as follows: Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind, Give us grace and strength to forbear and to preserve; Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies, Bless us if it may be in all our innocent endeavours, If it may not, give us strength to encounter that which is to come, That we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, Temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune And down to the gates, of death, loyal and loving to one another. Other verses which it is hoped will be an inspiration to the whole school are prominently displayed in the administrative portion of fhe building and read:—

And when the One Great Scorer comes, To write against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost, But how you played the game.