In honor of President's Day

a prayer by George Washington, the first U.S. President

ALMIGHTY GOD: We make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection; and cultivate a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Submitted by the American Legion Auxiliary, New Rockford, N.D.