ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In these prayers a certain number of phrases and sentences have been used of which it has not been feasible to determine the origin. Aside from these, acknowledgment is made of the following sources from which prayers have been drawn by permission of the publishers. "Prayers Ancient and Modern," by Mary W. Tiletson. Little, Brown and Co. Prayers by Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman, and from the Mozarabic Liturgy. "A Book of Offices and Prayers." Edwin S. Gorham. (By permission of the compilers.) "A Chain of Prayer across the Ages," by Selina F. Fox. E. P. Dutton and Co., holders of American copyright only. Prayers marked with an asterisk. "Prayers and Meditations," by Henry Sylvester Nash. Longmans, Green and Co. "With God in Prayer," by Bishop Brent. Copyright, 1907, by George W. Jacobs and Co. "Prayers Written at Vailima," by Robert Louis Stevenson. Copyright, 1898, 1904, by Charles Scribner's Sons. "Closet and Altar." The Pilgrim Press. PAGE I CONTENTS 2 3 Richard Dilworth Lew Wallace (in "Ben Hur") John Wesley; Chain of Prayer John Pearson; Chain of Prayer Christina G. Rossetti; Chain of Prayer A Book of Offices and Prayers Henry Sylvester Nash (abridged) Henry Alford; Chain of Prayer (abridged) Treasury of Devotion, Chain of Prayer PAGE CONTENTS Sarum Breviary; Chain of Prayer From Taylor's Covenant Bishop Brent, in “With God in Prayer" (adapted) II Adapted from Matthew Arnold and Ralph Waldo Emerson St. Augustine; Chain of Prayer 18 Antony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Chain of CONTENTS Dedication Service, Y. W. C. A. II Cor. XIII:14 Richard Roberts Book of Offices and Prayers (abridged and altered) |