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To The Editor: My sister, Mrs. William Scott Keith,Sr., of Deerfield, Mass., has sent me a clipping from your edition of Nov. 28, in which is printed a letter from Emily A. Carson of “Turners Falls and a “Prayer for the Nation’ which she mistakenly attributes to Thomas Jefferson. This eloquent prayer was not written by Jefferson, who seldom, if ever, addressed the Deity; but by Mrs. Keith’s and my maternal grandfather, the Rev. George Lyman Locke, D.D. He composed it in this way. His friend and classmate (Harvard 1859) was the Rev. Dr. William Reed Huntington, rector of Grace (Episcopal) Church, at Broadway and Tenth St. in New York. In 1883 Dr. Huntington was one of a commission appointed to revise The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church. One evening, when my grandfather was staying with Dr. Hunting ton at the rectory of Grace Church, he asked my grand father, when saying good-night, to make up a prayer for the country when he reappeared at breakfast. The result is the prayer which Ms. Carson quotes, and which now appears in the Episcopal prayer-book, where it is entitled ‘For Our Country”, and not “Prayer for the Nation’, as Ms. Carson quotes, President Roosevelt, in one of the speeches of one of his campaigns, quoted our grand father's prayer, calling it ‘an old English prayer”. Our mother, who was Dr. Locke’s daughter (and only child) wrote Mr. Roosevelt a friendly letter of correction. I take’ the liberty of enclosing herewith the photo copy of a letter which he sent back to..her “from the’ White House, ‘dated November 8, 1940. It must, therefore, ‘have been written just after the date of his first re-election. cc: Mrs. W. Scott Keith, Sr., Deerfield, Mass. 01342. © Ms. Emily A. Cagson, Turners-Falls, Mass. The plea for honorable industry, sound learning and pure manners has almost an Elizabethan ring; but, alas! is more honored in the breach than the observance. GEORGE L. HOWE Haywood, Va. Anti-Abortion Bloc Within LWV To The Editor: Many members of the League of Women Voters — in Hing ham, Randolph, Brockton, Pittsfield, Wayland, Methuen, Melrose, Wakefield, Worcester, Andover, Needham and Belmont — are banding together to oppose the League’s advocacy of abortion-on-de mand. The opposition of the League's so-called “study” on abortion surfaced because of the endorsement of the advisory referendum in various districts which called for the repeal of. all legal protection of.:unborn children. The phenomenon of loyal League members, challenging the League’s “gag rule’ results from the deep-seated’ conviction that a number of chairmen were carefully selected because of pro-abortion sympathies and pro-abortion women were recruited into membership so as to effect final votes in which the outcome would, ‘be in question: We wish to remain in the League, supporting those projects and purposes which are for the common good., But we intend to oppose from within this preference for killing, instead of more humane alter natives such as increased adoptions. This commitment is strengthened by the view that the League’s action is ex tremely inappropriate at a time {t is well known that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon render a decision on the constitution ality of abortion on demand. KATHLEEN ROTH, Hingham ELEANOR DEPASQUALE, Wakefield PRISCILLA LAVEAGE, Belmont
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Greenfield Recorder
Greenfield, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Dec 12, 1972
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