William Penn Actually Wrote A Prayer For ...

William Penn actually wrote a prayer for Philadelphia which today still hangs in Philadelphia’s City Hall:

i. An thou, Philadelphia, the Virgin settlement of this province named before thou wert born, what love, what care. What service and what traveil have there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee. O that thou mayest be kept from the evil that would overwhelm thee. That faithful to God of thy mercies, in the Life of Righteousness, thou mayest be preserved to the end. My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blest of the Lord and thy people saved by His power (Moore, One Nation Under God, page 23).