O friends of God! The eventide draweth nigh and the sun setteth, and these fingers grow weary from abundant writing [3.5s]... ...O Thou Pure and Omnipotent God! O Thou my kind Lord! Grant me such power as to enable me to withstand the onslaught of the peoples and kindreds of the world, and give us such might as to cause the waves of our endeavors, like unto the Pacific Ocean