I pray that the hand of the truth may be stretched out and blessing given to this people on account of Thy lovingkindness, O God of compassion: May a hand of piety and power and sound discipline and cleanness and all holiness, bless this people, and continually preserve it to advancement and improvement, through Thy Only-Begotten Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.151-152).