Pray for our cities! Grown too fast, how many lives they crush or break! Their golden nets too widely cast, they gather more than they can take. How many seeking gold find dross! Who can assess the gain and loss? Look kindly on each nameless face, all who make up the motley throng: that immigrant of alien race; the lonely old, the rootless young; the ones who rise, the ones who fall; the rich, the poor: pray for them all! What sins the great apostle saw in Corinth, Athens, Ephesus! What breaking of the moral law! How these same problems stare at us, from sordid sex to double-talk in modern London or New York. But Christ, who teaches us to care, who loved the city David planned, who wept for it, and suffered there, who builds on rock and not on sand: he shares with us each urban task, and gives new life to all who ask.