his picture contains lyrics from the much-loved hymn “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”:
“Dear Lord and Father of mankind forgive our foolish ways,
Reclothe us in our rightful mind in purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence praise.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness ’till all our strivings cease,
Take from our souls the strain and stress and let our ordered lives confess,
The beauty of Thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and Thy balm,
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire, speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm.”
“Dear Lord and Father of mankind forgive our foolish ways,
Reclothe us in our rightful mind in purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence praise.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness ’till all our strivings cease,
Take from our souls the strain and stress and let our ordered lives confess,
The beauty of Thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and Thy balm,
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire, speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm.”
