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- 0:03Speaker 1: The founder of the world-renowned Hilton Hotel chain, Conrad Hilton,
- 0:07Speaker 1: who lived from 1887 till 1979, published a heartfelt prayer
- 0:13Speaker 1: on full-page magazine ads in 1952. Hello, I'm Ron Edwards.
- 0:19Speaker 1: On today's page from the Edwards Notebook, Mr. Hilton's prayer
- 0:22Speaker 1: goes as follows. Quote, Our Father in Heaven, we pray
- 0:26Speaker 1: you save us from ourselves. the world that you made
- 0:29Speaker 1: for us to live in peace. We have made into
- 0:32Speaker 1: an armed camp. We live in fear of war to come.
- 0:35Speaker 1: We are afraid of the terror that flies by night
- 0:38Speaker 1: and the arrow that flies by day, the pestilence that
- 0:41Speaker 1: walks in darkness. and the destruction that wastes at noonday.
- 0:45Speaker 1: We have turned from you to go our selfish way.
- 0:48Speaker 1: We have broken your commandments and denied your truth. We
- 0:51Speaker 1: have left your altars to serve false gods of money, pleasure,
- 0:55Speaker 1: and power. Forgive us and help us. Now darkness gathers
- 0:58Speaker 1: around us and we are confused in all our counsels.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Losing faith in you, we lose faith in ourselves. Be
- 1:06Speaker 1: swift to save us, dear God, before darkness falls. Let
- 1:11Speaker 1: us today seek forgiveness for allowing the leftist darkness now
- 1:15Speaker 1: permeating our entire republic, and may we the people quickly
- 1:18Speaker 1: regain the will to defeat the darkness, so that America
- 1:22Speaker 1: will be great again. I'm Ron Edwards.