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mime carefully about the words ot this prayer—
"Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep III should die before I wake. I pray the Lord my soul to take."
In this country it first appeared in editions of The New England Primer about the time of the Revolutionary War. But the earliest record of the prayer is found in a devotional handbook dated 1160 A. D
If the third line strikes you as morbid, remember how high the mortality rate among children was just four generations ago
Some modern parents have taught their youngsters an additional couplet:
“If I should live for other days I pray the Lord to guide my ways."
That's a worthy addition—if we do our part!
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