More Opening Prayers by F W Boreham

Prayers from F W Boreham's Prayer Notebook.

This article follows the opening post on the Early Influences on F W Boreham which looked at some of the factors that shaped Dr Boreham’s life of prayer.

Scots’ Church was founded in 1838 and the building is located at 156 Collins Street in Melbourne.

Presumably these opening prayers would have been offered in the city and suburban churches of Melbourne, Sunday by Sunday as well as in the weekly Wednesday lunch hour services at Scots’ Presbyterian Church, a task that he commenced in 1936 for a month but was “impelled to carry on for the next eighteen years.”¹

With Dr Boreham’s fame and international reputation these packed-out services were judged to be “one of the most effective religious influences in the city.”²

More Opening Prayers

An opening prayer that F W Boreham appears to have clipped out and pasted in this section of his Prayer Notebook reads this way: