A Plead for Prayer
by Helen Thomas Robson
Title
A Plead for Prayer
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Helen Thomas Robson
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Photograph - Fine Art Photography
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A Plea for Prayer”
It was during the crisis period that 81 year-old Benjamin Franklin made his famous plea for prayer:
“Gentlemen, Gentlemen, the little progress we have made in the last weeks is a melancholy proof of the imperfections of the human understanding; groping as it were in the dark, how has it happened that we have not sought the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of the war with Britain we had daily prayer in this [very] room, and asked for divine protection. Our prayers were heard; and they were graciously answered. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need
His assistance?
“I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more covincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’
“I, therefore, beg leave to move, that hereafter prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business.”
Franklin’s plea had a sobering effect on the delegates, and they set about their task with greater determination.
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