A Prayer for Pittsburgh - Christian Science Monitor

A prayer for Pittsburgh and for all the victims who suffered in the 

Tree of Life  Synagogue massacre.

Published in the Christian Science Monitor at this link

“Let all that now divides us remove and pass away,” urges the 

hymn in today’s column, which points to peace and unity, not 

division and hate, as normal and natural.

October 29, 2018

Now is the time approaching,

     By prophets long foretold,

When all shall dwell together,

     One Shepherd and one fold.

Now Jew and Gentile, meeting

     From many a distant shore,

Around one altar kneeling,

     One common Lord adore.

Let all that now divides us

     Remove and pass away,

Like shadows of the morning

     Before the blaze of day.

Let all that now unites us

     More sweet and lasting prove,

A closer bond of union,

     In a blest land of love.

– Jane Borthwick, “Christian Science Hymnal” (1932), No. 196