For Absent Friends.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 4, 1 October 1914, Page 38

For Absent Friends.

0 Eternal I/ord God, from, whom no space or, distance can ever separate us, we know that those who are absent from each other are still present with Thee. We pray Thee 'to have m Thy holy keeping those who have gone forth from our •shores. Grant that they and we •drawing nearer to* Thee, may be drawn closer to each other, bound together by the unseen chain of Thy love m the Communion of Thy Saints and the Fellowship of Thy Spirit ; that whether or no, as •seemeth best to Thy Divine Providence, iwe meet together again here

on earith, we may surely meet together;: at the resurrection of the just and go m together to that house of many mansions which Thou hast prepared for them that unfeignedly love Thee ; through Jesus Gnrist our Lord. Amen. ■| Almighty and; Everlasting God, we beseech Thee to bless bur sons who are gone forth from New Zealand to fight the battles of their country : Let. ,Tlry fatherly hand ever be over them : Let Thy Holy Spirit ever be with them ; that, b^ Thy most mighty protection, they may be preserved m body and soul ; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.