Almighty and
everliving God, you are beyond the grasp of our highest thought, but within the
reach of our frailest trust: Come in the beauty of the morning’s light and
reveal yourself to us. Enrich us out of the heritage of seers and scholars and
saints into whose faith and labors we have entered, and quicken us to new
insights for our time; that we may be possessors of the truth of many
yesterdays, partakers of your thoughts for today, and creators with you of a
better tomorrow; through Jesus Christ, the Lord of the ages. Amen.
- Henry Sloane Coffin