1. "Our Father." Here introduce a tall _white_ candle. Let this stand for the words "Our Father." Highest and tallest of them all. "The Higher Light." God is light. The Light of the World and the ages. Have this light burning before the meeting opens. Don't light it as a part of the exercise. This light never had a beginning. How dark this world would be if this light should grow dim or go out! But God is _Our Father_ and he has promised he will never leave us alone, and in this prayer we are told to ask him for the things we need. A little chap was busy with his lessons, and they proved so hard for him to study that the tears began to flow down his little cheeks. His father noticed this and came over and sat by his side and helped him through with the hard part of the lesson. The father said, "Now crying did not help you, my son, did it?" The little fellow replied, "No, it did not help me, but it brought to my side some one who did." Prayer brings to our side "Our Father in heaven," and he can and will help us. 2. "Who art in heaven." For this sentence secure a _blue_ candle which reminds us of the blue heavens above us. God is beyond the blue, but by his light is everywhere, and from his throne in heaven is ever watching us. My own dear mother was a little old-fashioned mother, and from her window watched her children play in the backyard. Her watchful eye was ever on us, and if some wild boy of the street jumped over the fence and annoyed us, Mother saw him first, and came down-stairs into the yard, and the bad boy soon disappeared. My little brothers and myself were always glad for mother's watchful eye from the upper window. So our Father looks down from his window in heaven, and we are safe and happy because Father is looking down upon us. 3. "Hallowed be thy name." For this sentence secure a _green_ candle. Green is the most enduring of colors. The cedar and pine are green all the year. Winter and summer it shows forth its green just the same. Green is the everlasting color. The name of God is the name "Everlasting." It will endure forever; so long as this old earth shall stand his name will be spoken, and by human hearts be supremely loved. When this world has passed away in the life of the ages his name will also be the highest and best of all. In this prayer we are taught to reverence this eternal name. This is the only part of the prayer where God seems to be thinking about himself, and asks his followers to protect and revere his name. A little girl, one night, closed her little prayer by saying, "and please, dear God, take good care of yourself." She was thinking of God, so this prayer wants us to think of his name and keep it holy.