Article April 30, 1977 Issue

"Thine is the power"

Barbara Thayer Sibley

Exam time at college seemed very tense, and I began to be apprehensive about my ability to pass all my exams. To add to the discomfort, I noticed that my best-prepared friends, in order to protect themselves from the thought that "pride goes before a fall," kept expressing excessive gloom and predicting their failure

But just before exams started, during a chapel service, that whole sense of campus tension was dispelled for me as we repeated the last statement of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever." Matt. 6:13; There was the answer. I thought:

"Thine is the kingdom in which I work." That took care of the atmosphere on campus.

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