The following Collect is recited at each monthly meeting
A Collect for Club Women
Keep us, oh God from pettiness
Let’s be large in thought, in word, in deed
Let us be done with fault-finding
And leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretenses and meet each other face to face
Without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgement and always generous.
Let us take time for all things;
Make us grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight-forward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences.
That in the big things of life we are as one.
And may we strive to touch and to know the great, common human heart of us all, and
Oh, Lord God, let us not forget to be kind.
Mary Stewart – April, 1904