An old prayer for the moment

I saw this prayer many years ago and it’s been rolling in my mind the last couple of days.

O Lord, the eternal Life-giver, who liftest out of death and shame all faithful sufferers for the truth, setting their humanity on high, and making it glorious in the might of thy Spirit; give us grace always to contend for the right, and, if need be, to suffer for it; and give us not over to the death of the soul, but raise us up into newness of life, that we may abide in thy love forever. Amen.

From A Book of Prayer (Robert Crompton Jones), later used in Orders of Worship (Lindsay Press) and in the service for Easter in Services of Religion, prepended to the Hymns of the Spirit (Beacon Press /Murray Press)

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