Our Father, who art in heaven--the God of humanity--hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in the whole earth as it
is in heaven.
Give the nations this day their daily bread;
And forgive them their trespasses as they forgive the nations
that trespass against them.
And lead them not into the temptation of conquest or self
aggrandizement, but deliver them through their rulers
from this evil.
For thine is the world kingdom and the power and the glory,
forever. Amen.
At the Congress of Religions held at the World's Fair at Chicago in
1893, when the question came up as to what would be an appropriate
devotional appeal to be used in opening the Congress, the
representatives of every religion and faith of the world unanimously
agreed that the Lord's Prayer found in the Sermon on the Mount would be
acceptable to all. And the one given above is an adaption from the
Lord's Prayer, given in order that it may be seen how well its spirit
could be adapted to world democracy.