A Christian household prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson, from the 1916 Vailima edition.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
We are evil, O God, and help us to see it and amend. We are good, and help us to be better. Look down upon thy servants with a patient eye, even as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down, call upon the dry bones, quicken, enliven; recreate in us the soul of service, the spirit of peace; renew in us the sense of joy.