O send your light and your truth, that we may live always near to you, our God. Let us feel your love, that we may be, as it were, already in heaven, that we may do all our work as the angels do theirs. Let us be ready for every work, be ready to go out or come in, to stay or to depart, just as you shall appoint. Lord, let us have no will of our own or consider our true happiness as depending, in the slightest degree, on anything that can befall us outwardly, but as consisting altogether in conformity to your will. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. – The Rev. Henry Martyn (1781-1812), who translated the New Testament into both Hindi and Persian
From: Selina F. Fox, A Chain of Prayer Across All Ages, p. 143.
