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20. PRAYER
''Do not miss praying, asking
and conversing with our dear
Lord for all things. " (187 4)
Both the King and Queen believed in the power of prayer in
seeking knowledge and understanding, guidance and direction,
forgiveness and resolution, and in healing. The Queen urged
Peter to "Never allow a day to pass without" praying. She didn't
particularly care how he prayed, silently or aloud "even only an
'Our Father who art in Heaven, etc." What was important was
to approach life with a sense of holiness recognizing that we are
not alone and that there is a power beyond us.
Some of us may not believe in God or in prayer; indeed, there is
nothing in the Founding Charter that says we must. Although
she was a devoted Christian, so far as we know the Queen never
tried to force her faith on the hospital or any of its attending
physicians, nurses or patients. Queen Emma once confessed she
could not point to anyone she had converted:
"Unto man [or woman}
much has been given in the way
of p~sition, influence, and opportunity,
and yet no convert have I
made nor benefited him [in] any
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way.
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