A PRAYER BOOK
for
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
Published for
THE ARMY AND NAVY COMMISSION OF
THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
BY
THE CHURCH PENSION FUND
20 Exchange Place · New York
1941
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thyName. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, Onearth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our dailybread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgivethose who trespass against us. And lead us not intotemptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine isthe kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for everand ever. Amen.
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker ofheaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord: Whowas conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the VirginMary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified,dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The thirdday he rose again from the dead: He ascended intoheaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God theFather Almighty: From thence he shall come tojudge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy CatholicChurch; The Communion of Saints: The Forgivenessof sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Lifeeverlasting. Amen.
To you who are serving our country in the Armyor the Navy we send this book as a gift from theChurch and a reminder that the Church follows youinto the Service with deep interest. We hope that youwill find these prayers and hymns and Bible readingsa daily help and that they will make real to youthe power of God and His purpose for your life.
H. St. George Tucker
Presiding Bishop
The Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States
Contents
Fifth Edition, November 1942
An Order of Worship
HYMN
The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earthkeep silence before him. Hab. ii. 20.
I was glad when they said unto me, We will go intothe house of the Lord. Psalm cxxii. 1.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation ofmy heart, be alway acceptable in thy sight, O Lord,my strength and my redeemer. Psalm xix. 14.
O send out thy light and thy truth, that they maylead me, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thydwelling. Psalm xliii. 3.
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Fat