 | Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - 380 pagina’s
...contains more of the essence of true piety — more of gratitude, reliance, and worshipful devotion. " O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use: " 0 powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide!...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pagina’s
...examination for daily use : " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase in mo that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen...resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept tny kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1923 - 328 pagina’s
...my tables of examination, for daily use : "0 powerful Goodnessl bountiful Father I merciful Guide J Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my hind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 pagina’s
...prayer is also taken from the Autobiography : "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide I Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me." In his famous "The Way to... | |
 | Myrtle Strode Jackson - 1925 - 536 pagina’s
...as well as I could." The prayer which he made to use with his chart of virtues is truly remarkable: "O! powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful...wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1926 - 630 pagina’s
...GRATITUDE to God and service to mankind are the dominant notes in the daily prayer of Benjamin Franklin: О powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...wisdom which discovers my truest interest Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pagina’s
...little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness I bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that...•which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
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And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it ; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. 
