Let our great cities be swept clean of vice, and infidelity, and superstition. Deliver our country villages and hamlets from the drunkenness and ignorance in which they dwell. Let the whole earth behold the brightness of the coming of the Lord. Let Jesus Christ reign from pole to pole, until he himself shall come openly and manifestly to take to himself his great power, and all the kingdoms surrender themselves into his hands.
And now, Father, save any in this house who remain unreconciled to their God. Touch now, with your sacred finger, some careless heart that may be using even the House of God as a place for the gratification of curiosity, desiring no spiritual gift whatsoever; yet will you be pleased to lay your hand upon that heart, and make it feel that God is near; and may conscience say, “Be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near unto you.”