us. Let none of us forget that we live before thee. Search us, O God, and know our heart; try us, and know our reins, and lead us in the way everlasting. Let us not grieve thy Spirit. Keep far from us all pride and self-dependence; all covetousness and worldliness. May we pass the time of our sojourning here in fear. Give us the wisdom from above, which is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. May we be blessings to all around us, men seeing our good works, and glorifying our Father who is in heaven. Teach us to walk in love toward thee, and in kindness towards each other and towards all men ; thus prepare us, O God of our praise, for the blessed intercourse of heaven.

We trust we may ask for temporal prosperity in such degree as may do us real good. Give us neither poverty nor riches. May we have favour in the sight of those with whom we mingle. Grant us wisdom in conducting our business, and faithfulness and integrity. Keep from us, if it please thee, loss and mischief of every kind. Let our health be precious in thy sight, and may we in all things gratefully acknowledge thine hand. Or if thou send us adversity, and disappointment, and sorrow, suffer us not to faint, but help us still to own thy hand; and may we be chastened by these afflictions so as not to be condemned with the world.

O let our prayer come up before thee as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as the morning sacrifice, being presented by the great High Priest, who is continually before thy throne. In his name we offer our praises and our petitions. Amen.

We will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be continually in our mouth. Thou, O Lord, hast dealt bountifully with us, and we will call upon thy name as long as we live. We would enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Be merciful unto us for his sake, and lift up upon us the light of thy countenance. We come to thee believing that thou art, and that thou art the rewarder of them that diligently seek thee. Hear our prayer, O Lord, and give ear to our supplications. In thy faithfulness answer us, and be nigh unto us in all that we call upon thee for. We confess our sin, and we would not hide our transgression. Oh blot out, as a thick cloud, our sins. We return unto thee, for thou hast redeemed us. Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all that call upon thee. Thou hast set forth thy Son, Christ Jesus, to be a propitiation for sin through faith in his blood. O Lord, this is our hope. We receive the atonement. Grant us redemption through the blood of Christ, even the forgiveness of sins. Be thou our God; and may we be thy people. Oh cast us not away from thy presence, and take not thine Holy Spirit from us. May he graciously destroy the power of sin in our hearts. Let no iniquity have dominion over us. Oh make us to hear joy and gladness, that our bones, which sin has broken, may rejoice. Give us grace to put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and to put on the new man, which, after God, is

created in righteousness and true holiness. Grant us so to know the truth, that the truth may make us free. Write thy law in our hearts, and put it in our inward part. Let not our steps slide; but may we delight to do thy will; and let thy Spirit uphold our goings. Fill us with the knowledge of thy will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Oh put thy fear into our hearts, and let us never depart from thee. May Christ be in us the hope of glory, and may we not be moved away from the hope of the gospel. Teach us, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and we shall keep it unto the end. Give us understanding, and we shall keep thy law ; yea, we shall observe it with our whole heart. Make us to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do we delight. Incline our hearts unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness; and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through gracę, comfort our hearts, and stablish us in every good word and work.

Make us useful, we beseech thee, in promoting thy glory in the world. Bless all pertaining to us with thy favour, and grant them thy salvation. Fill our land with holy light and holy love; and may thy churches be greatly increased with all the increase of God.

Forgive the follies of another day; and let thine eye be upon us to-night. Look upon us, and be merciful to us, as thou usest to do to them that love thy name, and do more for us than we are able to ask or think, supplying all our needs according to thy riches in glory, by Christ Jesus, in whom we hope. Amen.

LUKE XIX.

MORNING HYMN.

"I will give you rest."

How sweet to the soul are the breathings of peace,
When the still voice of pardon bids sorrow to cease;
When the welcome of mercy falls soft on the ear,
"Come hither, ye laden, ye weary, draw near."

There is rest for the soul that on Jesus relies,
There's a home for the homeless prepared in the skies ;
There's a joy in believing, a hope and a stay,
That the world cannot give, nor the world take away.

Oh had I the wings of a dove, I would fly,

And mount on the pinions of faith to the sky;

Where the still and small breathing to earth that was given,

Shall be changed to the anthem and chorus of heaven.

"I am he that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."

OUR Saviour, Advocate, and Friend,
On thee our lives and souls depend;
The keys of death and worlds unseen,
Firm in thine hands have ever been;
Thy pierced hands our feet shall lead,
Safe in thy steps, through death's dark shade.

MATTHEW XX.

EVENING HYMN.

"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation."

HAPPY the men whose bliss supreme

Flows from a source on high; And flows in one perpetual stream, When earthly springs are dry.

If Providence their comforts shroud,
And dark distresses lower;

Hope paints its rainbow in the cloud,
And grace shines through the shower.

What troubles can their heart o'erwhelm,
Who view a Saviour near?

Whose Father sits and guides the helm ;
Whose voice forbids their fear?

Let tempests rage and billows rise,
And mortal firmness shrink;
Their anchor fastens in the skies;
Their bark no storms can sink.

God is their joy and portion still,
When earthly good retires;

And shall their hearts sustain and fill

When earth itself expires.