Let candles burn, both warm and bright, Which to our darkness Thou has brought, When we are wrapped in silence most profound, May we hear that song most fully raised From all the Unseen World that lies around And Thou art by all Thy children praised.
Night and morning, You are by us faithfully And surely at each newborn day.
In the last years of his life, Rultin was fond of repeating a statement attributed to A. Philip Randolph: "The struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final act. "A few months before Rultin died, a young admirer asked how he kept hopeful in dismally conservative times. "I have learned a very significant message from the prophets," Rultin replied. "They taught that God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What is required of us is that we not stop trying."
