William Wilberforce & Anthony Ashley-Cooper: Witnesses for Social Justice

Just and eternal God, we give you thank for the stalwart faith

and persistence of your servants William Wilberforce and

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, who, undeterred by opposition

and failure, held fast to a vision of justice in which no child

of yours might suffer in enforced servitude and misery.

Grant  that we, drawn by that same Gospel vision, may persevere

in serving the common good and caring for those who have been

cast down, that they may be raised up through Jesus Christ. Amen.