Bless This Food by Adrian Butash

Author:Adrian Butash
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608682836
Publisher: New World Library

Prayer 74

O Brother Man, fold to thy heart thy brother;

Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;

To worship rightly is to love each other,

Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

John Greenleaf Whittier was a Quaker patriot and writer and an avid Abolitionist who decried slavery. He was raised in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in a large farm family and knew the joy and rewards of the harvest, as expressed in Prayer 73, taken from his poem “The Corn-Song.” He became an editor for several Boston newspapers and wrote poetry and hymns that embrace a universalist spirit. Nineteenth-century Universalists emphasized the ideas of individual piety and a zeal for “religion of the heart.” They believed that a God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. A bard of the common man, Whittier composed more than a hundred hymns that were deeply religious and that praised God. Prayer 74 above is taken from one of his hymns.

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