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- 0:03Speaker 1: The founder of the world renowned Hilton hotel chain, Conrad Hilton,
- 0:07Speaker 1: who lived from eighteen eighty seven till nineteen seventy nine,
- 0:11Speaker 1: published a heartfelt prayer on full page magazine ads in
- 0:15Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two. Hello, I'm Ron Edwards on to day's
- 0:19Speaker 1: page from the Edwards Notebook. Mister Hilton's prayer goes as follows,
- 0:24Speaker 1: quote Our Father in Heaven, we pray you save us
- 0:27Speaker 1: from ourselves. The world that you made for us to
- 0:30Speaker 1: live in peace we have made into an armed camp.
- 0:34Speaker 1: We live in fear of war to come. We are
- 0:36Speaker 1: afraid of the terror that flies by night, and the
- 0:39Speaker 1: arrow that flies by day, the pestile instead walks in darkness,
- 0:43Speaker 1: and the destruction that wastes at noonday. We have turned
- 0:47Speaker 1: from you to go our selfish way. We have broken
- 0:51Speaker 1: your commandments and denied your truth. We have left your
- 0:55Speaker 1: altars to serve false gods of money, pleasure, and power.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Forgive us and help us. Now darkness gathers around us,
- 1:02Speaker 1: and we are confused in all our consuls. Losing faith
- 1:06Speaker 1: in You, we lose faith in ourselves. Be swift to
- 1:10Speaker 1: save us, Dear God, before darkness falls, Let us to
- 1:14Speaker 1: day seek forgiveness for allowing the leftist darkness now permeating
- 1:18Speaker 1: our entire republic. And may we the people quickly regain
- 1:21Speaker 1: the will to defeat the darkness, so that America will
- 1:25Speaker 1: be great again. I'm run edwards