More on the Serenity Prayer (Hartford Courant)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/20/2008 07:32 PM, Baker, John wrote:
>         Some sources attribute the prayer to "Bishop Oliver J. Hart" or
>to "Oliver J. Hart (1723-1795)," whose version of the prayer supposedly
>read "God give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be
>changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed,
>and the wisdom to know one from the other."  There don't seem to be many
>references to Hart that don't refer to the prayer.  Is there any reason
>to believe that Hart, whoever he was, may have written this Fortitude
>Prayer?

Can't be right if he didn't capitalize nouns.  :-)

In any case, this does not sound 18th century to me.

Joel

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