O God, our Father,
Thou Searcher of human hearts, help us to draw near to Thee in
sincerity and truth. May our religion be filled with gladness and
may our worship of Thee be natural.
Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and
clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and
pretence ever to diminish. Encourage us in our endeavor to live
above the common level of life. Make us to choose the harder
right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a
half truth when the whole can be won. Endow us with courage
that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that
scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear
when truth and right are in jeopardy. Guard us against flippancy
and irreverence in the sacred things of life. Grant us new ties
of friendship and new opportunities of service. Kindle our hearts
in fellowship with those of a cheerful countenance, and soften
our hearts with sympathy for those who sorrow and suffer. Help us
to maintain the honor of the Corps untarnished and unsullied and
to show forth in our lives the ideals of West Point in doing our
duty to Thee and to our Country. All of which we ask in the name
of the Great Friend and Master of all. - Amen