Collect Day #8 WENTWORTH CHESWELL Almighty God, who raised up your servant Wentworth Cheswell to serve the cause of American freedom and to serve his community with honor and dedicated labors in education, government and the pursuit of justice: we pray that his enduring spirit may fill our hearts for service in the cause of true freedom for all the citizens of New Hampshire and of the United States; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Day #8, February 22, 2018…
Collect Day #9, JUDE HALL You invite us, Lord, in this holy season of Lent, to the practices of prayer, fasting, and self-denial; to the reading of and mediating upon Your holy Word. Jude Hall, his wife and ten children, fasted often, but it was not a fast of choice. They may have mediated upon Your holy Word, and asked You to protect their kidnapped children, to take away the arrogance of a mind that could believe a youth was…
Collect Day #10, SAMPSON MOORE BATTIS O God who never forgets the saints who lived in times past: we remember today Sampson Moore Battis who fought for the freedoms we now inherit and who labored for freedom of the woman he loved; may we, like him, raise up generations of youth who speak and act boldly for the honor of all people and who will not tolerate racism in any form; through him who is the way, the truth and…
