Spencer Heath Archive

Item 246

Spencer MacCallum observed that Heath’s “Plea to the Lord,”reproduced below, gave new form to the “Lord’s Prayer” without altering the meaning. Now, he asked Heath, had he been free to change the meaning, what might he have written? Heath responded with a prayer he titled “At-one-ment.”

  

       

 

PRAYER – At-one-ment

 

Thou ALL

Of which we are a part

May we be ever more like Thee

Thee in us and we in Thee

The spark divine — Thine

Who art ever self-fulfilled

 

   

     

PLEA TO THE LORD

 

Our Sire who in the skies doth dwell,

Thy Name in Love and awe be held

May Thy rule come — Thy law be one.

Give us our need of bread each day

And as we take not all we may

From those who in our debt shall be

So be Thou mild when we owe Thee.

In ways that tempt let us not go,

But free us from all harm and woe.

For Thine it is to Rule and Reign

And have all might, all praise and fame

For now and for all time to be.

And so, LORD, do we pray to Thee.