IV. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

V. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, and especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Charge those who are rich in this world, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate: laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Read Responsively:

Minister: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Congregation: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Minister: He is despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Congregation: Surely he hath borne. our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.

Minister: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.

Congregation: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Minister: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Congregation: He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall

declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Minister: And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Congregation: Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands. - Isa. liii. 1-10.

Then shall be said the Apostles' Creed by the minister and the people, at their option, standing:

I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. The third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

Then the officiating minister shall repair to the table, uncover the elements, and address the communicants in the following words:

Dearly beloved, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, and became the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world. In the same night he was betrayed he did institute this ordinance, and commanded his followers to continue the same in commemoration of his

death until he come again. You, therefore, who are striving to walk in all his commandments blameless, will now accompany us in a petition to the throne of grace, that we may worthily commemorate the death and passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Let us pray:

Almighty and most merciful God, we do not presume to approach this thy table trusting in our own righteousness, but in the blood and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are not worthy, O Lord, to gather up the crumbs from under thy table, for we have sinned and come short of thy glory; we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. Have mercy on us, O God, our heavenly Father; forgive our sins, and restore unto us the joy of thy salvation, through Jesus Christ, who has redeemed us by his own precious blood. Grant unto us, O our heavenly Father, the assistance of thy Holy Spirit, while we partake of these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son, our Saviour's holy institution, in grateful remembrance of his death and passion, that our hearts may be filled with love and gratitude for the unspeakable gift of thy Son, in the redemption and salvation of our souls. May we be melted into tenderness on account of the great love wherewith Christ hath loved us and given himself for us. May we ever remember his agony and bloody sweat in the garden of Gethsemane; his cruel mockings and scourgings in Pilate's Hall and his ignominious death on the cross. May we have redemption through his blood which was shed for the remission of our sins; and being justified by faith in him, be filled with love, have grace to keep all thy commandments, and show forth the Lord's death till he come, and finally be

brought, with all the Israel of God, to inherit eternal life through the merits and mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Here the minister may partake of the elements; then shall be said the Lord's prayer.

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Then the following invitation shall be given:

Ye that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways, draw near in faith, and partake of this ordinance to your comfort.

The minister shall then distribute the bread to the communicants, saying:

The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith, with thanksgiving.

While the minister is distributing the bread he may repeat one or more of the following passages:

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it. If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

The minister shall likewise take the wine, and give to each communicant, saying:

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Drink this in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for thee, and be thankful.' While serving the wine, the minister may repeat one or more of the following passages:

BAPTISM OF INFANTS

Infant baptism should be administered monthly in all our churches, and oftener when necessary.

In infant baptism, let it be an invariable rule to require the attendance of the parents of the child, unless in any particular case the minister should deem such attendance impracticable.

Let every adult person, and the parents of every child to be baptized, have the choice of sprinkling, or pouring, or immersion.

Parents, whose children have been baptized, should attend after service, and inform the minister of the age of the child or children baptized, that he may enter their names on the church register.

This Church disapproves of re-baptism.

When the child to be baptized is brought before the minister, he shall say to the parents:

Dearly beloved, you are now about to dedicate your child to the service of the living and true God, who hath said: Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; and the promise of acceptance and salvation is to you and your children, and to all that are afar off. By this act you acknowledge the high claim of Almighty God to the life and services of your offspring, and your own obligations to the Most High, to your infant, and to the Church of Christ, to guide its feet into the paths of righteousness, and to raise it up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.