I’m still trying to find out who wrote today’s prayer. The Presbyterian Book of Common Worship cites one “Maria Ware (1798).” Yet I have been unable to find her. Strangely, there is a Mary Ware born in 1798 and a Maria Hare born the same year. They both have left books behind: Edward B. Hall’s Memoir of Mary L. Ware, wife of Henry Ware, Jr. and Augustus…
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