Show THE MYTON MYrON FREE PRESS JANUARY I. I 1920 THE MYTON MyrON FREE PRESS An Independent Newspaper Published every ery Thursday at Dayton Myton Utah by the Uintah Basin Publishing Company Compan C C. D B. B COOK Manager I SUBSCRIPTION RATES KATES One year In advance 00 6 G months In advance 3 months In advance 50 60 I Advertising Rates on Request I Phone Ring Ring one one long one short i I Entered as second cl class 88 matter at I postoffice at Dayton Myton My ton Utah under I the act of March 3 1879 I 1 I A WATCH 1 NIGHT Irl PRAYER YEl R With the prayer around the world the New Year was ushered in In a thousand tongues it was spoken at Watch-Night Watch services in near and distant places in inthe inthe inthe the great grent cities clUes of the western world no less than In distant distant dis ds- tant villages on eastern hills It was heard by the kneeling woman in a New York pew by the barefoot Igorot headhunter by Chinese converts with bowed heads by Hindu women listening reverently with their arms folded crosswise on their breasts by Persian erslan Japanese Syrian Russ Indeed by all the peoples of the world From New York its starting point the prayer has been sent around the world by the Interchurch World Movement 1 of North America merica a movement to to- bring about Protestant co operation By telegraph it has been sent to the great greal denominations of or this cable It has lIas gone to England and the East Thus it has been dispatched to ever every mission center everywhere and from every mission center it has gone on again In tho the tholan lan language of of the country to to ever every Protestant mission station near and far This prayer Is tie first ever t to be sent around the world the first ever to be into a thousand languages and spoken simultaneously In countless places With one voice olce though in many tongues it calls for the elevation of Justice and of brotherhood and appeals for the hastening of that Kingdom where Justice mercy and love lo shall rule the hearts and hands of men To Mexico City and Montevideo the prayer was cabled for South and Central America to Shanghai al alBO also also al- al so BO and from there it as was as relayed to Japan the Philippines Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines Malaysia and oc Oceania a ania to Lahore India fo for throughout and and Je tl u coun- coun n- n r to-n to ht t n I t Beirut Syria Levant To Cairo for the north northern retches s of Africa to for forthe forthe forthe the darkest places of the Congo to Durban for South AfrIca Africa Africa Af Af- rica for the Zulu the Zulu and th the i Boer To Sweden and Zurich Switzerland for all countries of Europe From these Mission centers centers It was sent out to stations stations sta sta- everywhere and th the missionaries received it In Inthe Inthe inthe the language of the p people olle of their districts and In every Protestant mission station great or sm small ll it was spoken at special Watch Night-Watch services And when merrymakers merrymaker were thronging through the Boulevard des Paris or streaming along the Strand or pressing along the lighted walks side s of Broadway or trudging through the Bund in Shanghai waiting for the ringing of the New Year In churches and In chapels some of them made of marble and some of them made of mud Christian people of the white race and the yellow race and the black race heard the prayer that went around the world The prayer pray pray- er for guidance to replenish h a devastated earth and stay the unrest of perplexed peoples I Almighty God lintl Father et of all mankind at the end of oC n a year ear In which malice has so often thwarted love lo we wo join tho the prayers prayers- s of all uIl Thy children c around the world for fOl peace ponce the elevation of justice and of brotherhood Thou Creator possessor of nil aU things thins who make tho the earth for the races of men and md set bounds bound for their habitation forgive e us our prowl greed us as we repent of our sin and l' l restore tore to nIl hill hearts the tho recognition of of- the transcendent right of human humm life to live Open our eyes we beseech hc Thee Thoe to the tho dignity of oC labor the sacredness s of human service ice and ami the tho privileges of production that lint nation nut may join nation na nn- tion and nud man ma may join justly tusH in honest work to replenish a n devastated earth Quicken the sympathy of h hearts male made dull h by reports reports re re- ports and sights of or suffering guttering incomprehensible and needless sCull s Call Cull us ns again that we tiny rimy IK how bow V before the flu eternal eternal eternal eter eter- nal laws hiss o of creation putt putting In reside 1 malice envy covetousness s anti ami brutality to enter cutel into the peace of the he sons of th the tho Mot Most High Hasten h by Th Thy gracious Providence mill and h by the consecrated consecrate efforts of Td children the coming conning of Ih Thy world wide kingdom where justice mere mercy and love shall hall rule the hearts he and hands hanels of men nien Create In us tL 0 O I Lord clean hearts heart's and renew right spirits for fOJ the coming C y your ar This we wo ask ash In the thc spirit of Jesus lesus Christ our only Hope men Amen J |