THE PRAYER HEM HEARD AROUND THE WORLD with the prayer around the world the new year will be ushered in in III a thousand tongues it will be spoken at watch night services in n near ear and distant places in tile the great cities of the western world no less than in distant villages on oil eastern hills it will be heard by the kneeling woman in a now new york pew by the barefoot igorot headhunter head hunter by chinese converts with bowed heads by hindu women listening reverently with their arms folded folded crosswise on their breasts by persian Japa japanese Syr itin runs indeed by all the people of 0 the world from new york its starting point the prayer has been sent around the world by the interchurch world movement north america a movement to bring about protestant operation cooperation co by telegraph it has been sent to tile the great d enion nations ot of this country by cable it has gone to england and the east thus it has been dispatched to every mission center everywhere and from every mission center it has gone on again in in the language of the country to every protestant mission station near and far this prayer is the first ever to be sent around the world the first ever to lo be translated into a thousand languages and spoken simultaneously in countless places with one voice though in many tongues it calls tor for the elevation of justice and of brotherhood the and appeals for the hasten rg of that kingdom where I 1 nf c fr ncncy and love shall rule rna 03 hearts ind and hands of men to mexico city and montevideo the rayer prayer was cabled for south and america to shanghai also anti rom there it was relayed to japan the he philippines malaysia and Ocea oceania nii to lahore india tor for distribution torii out india and the surrounding countries to Recht persia and to ile beirut syria for the levant to cairo tor for the northern stretches ot of africa to for the darkest ilar kest place of 0 t the to I 1 congo to durban for south africa I 1 tor dr the zulu and the boer to Upp shala sweden and zurich switzerland for all the countries of europe irom from each of these mission centers it was sent out to tile tho out stations everywhere and the missionaries will receive it in the language of the people of their districts and in every protestant mission station great or small it will bo be spoken at special night watch services on new years eve and when merrymakers merry makers are throns ing through the boulevard paris or streaming along the strand or pressing along the lighted sidewalks do of broadway or trudging through the bund in shanghai waiting for the ringing of the new year tear in ill churches and in in chapels sone solle of 0 them mado made of marble and soma of them made of mud christian people of the white race and the yellow race and the lie black race will be hearing the prayer that went around the world the prayer for guidance to replenish a devastated earth and stave the unrest of perplexed peoples following is the prayer A WATCH NIGHT PRAYER almighty god father of all mankind at the end of a year in which malice has so often thwarted love we join the prayers of all thy children around the world tor for peace the elevation of justice and of brotherhood thou creator possessor of all things who aio make the earth for tho the races of men and set bounds for their habitation forgive us our greed as wo we repent of our sin and r restore e to all henits the recognition or of the transcendent right of human life 0 o live open our eyes we beseech thee to the dignity of labor the sacredness sacre of aiman service and the privilege of that nation natio i may boin na tion and man mail may join man mail justly in honest vork to replenish a devastated earth quicken the sympathy of 0 hearts made dull by reports and sights of slit silt call us its again that we may bow before the eternal laws of creation ealion cr puttering incomprehensible an I 1 needless ting aside malice envy covetousness and brutality to enter into the peace of the son of the most host high hasten by thy gracious P providence and by the consecrated efforts of thy children the coming of thy worldwide kingdom where justice mercy and loie shall rule the hearts and hands of men create in us 0 lord clean hearts and renew right spirits for the coming coining year this we ask in the spirit of jesus christ our only hope amen