Prayer
New every morning (A. and M. 4:
S.P. 31, omitting vv. 4 and 5; C.H. 259. vv. 2, 3. 4. 6. 8: Tune, Melcombe)
Interlude: Brother Lawrence'
Prayers; the Prayer for God's
Presence; the Lord's Prayer
Forth in thy name (omitting v. 2) (A. and M. 8; S.P. 29; C.H. 651: Tune, Angel's Song)
Blessing
Brother Lawrence was a young lay brother who lived in a monastery in France about three hundred years ago. He had a dull and humdrum job in the kitchen, but, amid all the noise and clatter, he formed the habit of keeping God continually in his thoughts and wrote one of the most famous books about prayer. The Practice of the Presence of God.' His story illustrates our Lord's saying: ' Blessed are the meek. for they shaH inherit the earth ' (St. Matthew 5, v. 5).