"From the language I heard, I thought perhaps you were opening it with prayer."
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The newspaper report of the special Sunday services contained the following impressive description of the prayer:
"The most eloquent prayer ever addressed to a Boston audience."
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The New York Sun published the following:
The toys had been reluctantly laid aside and in her dainty nightie the little girl, scarcely more than a baby, knelt at her mother's knee.
The eyes, which all day long are alight with mischief, were reverently closed, and as she haltingly uttered the words of the old, yet ever young child's prayer her rapt face, raised occasionally from her dimpled hands, took on an expression almost seraphic in its innocent purity.
With a fervent "Amen" she ended her supplication, then jumped up, eyes dancing, and exclaimed: