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ment is great gain. May we cultivate the lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness which Thou dost exercise in the earth, for these are the things in which Thou delightest. And should Thy Providential blessings be withdrawn, let us not charge Thee foolishly. Thou still art Just. And in promoting our good by trials Thou art as merciful as in surrounding us with comforts. May we love Thee for Thy self: delight ourselves in Thee and although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, yet may we rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of our salvation!

Retiring soon to rest, we would contrast our enjoyments with the privations of the homeless ; with the persecutions which befell them, of whom the world was not worthy, that wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth; with the mysterious humiliations of Him whom the inn of Bethlehem refused to receive, who, while the foxes had holes and the birds of the air their nests, had not where to lay his head! May our sleep refresh us; let us not be full of tossings to and fro; suffer no evil sound of unpardoned and unrepented sin to be in our ear; scare us not with dreams nor terrify us through visions. And when the dawn shall break, may we cast off our

heaviness, feel recovered from our fatigue, cheerfully take our place once more in our appointed sphere, and gladly compute the lessening number of our days by the sweet assurance that our salvation is continually nearer and nearer than when we believed.

But the ungodly are not so. We pray for the families which fear and profess Thee not. May they who occupy the solemn responsibility of presiding over them, see that thus they open a new source of public irreligion, that they cause their children to pass through the fire, and that they imprecate on them and theirs, the fury which shall be poured out upon the families which call not upon Thy name.

Remember, O God, Thy church in this wilderness. Let not the spirit which is of the world be permitted to enter it. May it hold forth the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship most undisguisedly and most unyieldingly. Let its health spring forth speedily. Let not the gates of the invisible world, the devastations of death, in the withdrawment of the pious and useful, prevail against it.

O send out Thy light and Thy truth! Go, Thou Breaker up, before our dear Missionaries ; let every valley be exalted, and every mountain and hill be made low; turn the heart of kings; change the face of empires; subdue the people

under Thee; may the ends of the earth remember, and fear, and turn unto the Lord. May all men declare the work of God, and wisely consider of his doing!

To Thee once more we commit ourselves. The darkness and the light are both alike unto Thee; and Thou who hast hitherto kept us, continue to keep us until the vicissitude of day and night shall cease in the noontide of Celestial glory.

We ask to be heard for the sake of Thy dear Son, who while we His people pray without, is within the veil bearing our names on His breastplate, and presenting our sacrifices on His altar of inextinguishable incense. To Him, united with the Father and the Spirit, we offer our worship. Amen.

"The grace of our Lord," &c.

TUESDAY MORNING.

Oн how great is Thy goodness, O Lord, which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee ; which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee before the sons of men! Little may we boast, nor dare we connect our experience of this goodness with the fear we have shown Thee, or

the trust we have put in Thee. Often mightest Thou have demanded, Where is my fear? fear? Often mightest Thou have rebuked us, Wherefore do ye doubt? But Thy goodness overflows towards us, it must be therefore free as it is great! How excellent is Thy loving-kindness!

If we were only the beneficiaries of Thy care and bounty, we should need a Mediator, for without an infinite righteousness, the righteousness of God by faith, worthless and sinful would be even our praise. But when we remember that we approach Thee as petitioners, such necessity becomes inconceivably stronger; and we now plead the merits of that perfect obedience to Thy law and that complete endurance of its penalty, witnessed in the life and death of our most blessed Lord and Redeemer. Solely on account of this satisfaction to Thy purity and rectitude, do we now ask to be heard, and hope to be accepted! Let us never count the blood of the covenant a common thing: never cease to be impressed with its awful expression against sin, nor to be affected with its tender commiseration for the sinner! Thus not having on our own righteousness, yet imploring that the righteousness of the Lord Jesus may be unto us and upon us, we draw near unto Thee, O our Father, and magnify Thy name together. Pleasant is the light,-Thou pourest it upon us. Sweet is it to assemble in this unity of

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feeling, Thou makest us to be of one mind. Our board is spread,-Thou preparest it. And delightful is it to think, that our daily duties are the tasks set us by Thy paternal discipline dictated by an invariable regard to our welfare; and that we best please Thee when we discharge them with the warmth, simplicity, and confidence of filial love. Lord! what wilt Thou have us to do? We can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth us!

May our trespasses be all forgiven. Thou hast ordained the way of pardon to the sinner and shut Thyself up unto it. Let it never be our crime and folly not to accord with it. Let Christ crucified be to us, as to all them who are called, the wisdom and the power of God. What other altar of expiation, what other altar of incense, have we but the Cross? Where, save in its shadow, can we take refuge, can we claim sanctuary, can we find rest unto our souls ?-Sprinkle the clean water of Divine influence upon us, and we shall be clean: from all our defilements and idols do Thou cleanse us. A new heart do Thou put within. In the hidden part do Thou make us to know wisdom. May we be converted, and become meek, docile, depending upon Thy testimony, yielding to Thy will, conformed to Thine image, as little children. May our holiness be active. May our faith work by love. May we

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