The Prayers of That Great Cloud of Witnesses

"A Who-Dunnit" Compendium Entry

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…