Above: A Volunteer Worker in Washington, D.C., Opening a Can of Baby Food for a Child Being Cared for at a United Nations Service Center, 1943
Image Source = Library of Congress
(http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001037712/PP/)
Prayer Source = Book of Common Worship (1993), of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Words by the Reverend John Underwood Stephens (1901-1984), a U.S. Presbyterian minister; published first in his Prayers of the Christian Life for Private and Public Worship (New York: Oxford University Press, 1952), page 147; I found the prayer on page 547 of the Book of Common Worship and the original credit on page 225 of Harold M. Daniels, To God Alone Be Glory: The Story and Sources of the Book of Common Worship (Louisville, Kentucky, Geneva Press, 1993)
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Enable us, O God,
to do all things as unto you;
that small things may be filled with greatness,
and great things crowned with humility;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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