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Show OLD PRAYER A GOOD ONE. Petition for Landlords Offered In England Eng-land Many Years Ago. In a prayer book, ot tho tlmo of King Edward VI. ot England, appoars the following prayer for landlords: "The earth is thine, O Lord, and all that Is contained therein, notwithstanding thou hast given possession of it to the children of mon, to pass over the time ot their short pllgrlmago In this valo of misery. We heartily pray thee to send thy Holy Spirit Into tho hearts of those that possess the grounds, pastures and dwelling places of the earth, that they, remembering themselves them-selves to be thy tenants, may not rack nor stretch out tho rents of their houses and lands nor yet take unreasonable unrea-sonable fines and Incomes after the manner of covetous worldlings; but so let them out to others that tho Inhabitants In-habitants thereof may both bo able to pay the rents and also honestly to live and nourish their families and relieve the poor. Give them grace also to consider that they aro but strangers and pilgrims in this world." |