CADET PRAYER

O God, our Father, Thou Searcher of human hearts,help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth.May our religion be filled with gladness and may our worship of Thee be natural.

Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and clean thinking,and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretence ever to diminish.Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life.Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong,and never to be content with a half truth when the whole can be won.

Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy,that scorns to compromise with vice and injusticeand knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.

Guard us against flippancy and ...

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