So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Lord behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell for the love accorded us this day for the hope with which we expect the morrow for the health the work the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends soften us to our enemies. Bless us if it may be in all our innocent endeavors if it may not give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christs sake.