First Lord's Day of the Year-Evening Prayer. Last Lord's Day of the Year-Morning Prayer. Occasional Seasons. Page Before communion (on any day of the week previously.) - 326 After communion (to be added to the other prayers.) - After a meeting to promote Christianity among the Jews. - 375 Before gospel propagation, or missionary society meetings or Preservation from the peculiar errors of these times. Preservation from the special temptations of these times. For grace to realize the presence and love of Christ. - 400 401 PREFACE. THE Author has often been requested to prepare a book of family prayers, but he was hindered by other occupation, and had also the feeling that there was considerable provision made for this duty in the devotions that have already been given to the church. During a late illness, however, while disabled from his public ministry, and restricted from every thing that might occasion mental excitement, it appeared to him that it might be both personally profitable, consistent with the circumstances in which he had been placed, and useful to others, to avail himself of notes which had been made of his own family prayers in preparing this work, and the reader has now before him the fruit of this seclusion from full public duties. The regular daily practice of family devotion comes so continually that the multiplication of helps is not without its advantage against the danger of mere formal repetitions. |