If we win Him, how mean is every other loss! If He be our friend, how light is the sacrifice of every other love! other love! If we be united to Him, we need not reck the dissolution of every other bond!

Thou

Smile upon Thy people of every name. Save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance : feed them also, and lift them up for ever. knowest Thy sheep, and art known of them. Be with them in their sufferings, their adversities, and that rebuke which shall soon be taken away from off all the earth. May they glorify Thee in the fires. May the trial of their faith be much more precious than of gold. Let their patience have its perfect work, their love abound yet more and more, their faith gather strength and their hope ardour!

Be very favourable to the government and the civil interests of this Country. Bless our Sovereign in person, and in the administration of the Royal Office. May the throne of these realms be established in justice and mercy. May this nation, with which Thou hast dealt as Thou hast not with any other, -exalted to heaven, full of the favour of the Lord,-among which is Thy Kingdom, bring forth the fruits thereof. May it know the day of its visitation. May it become a royal priesthood of praise and holiness.

Speak peace to the heathen! Let the Desire of all nations appear! May men be blessed in Him! Bless our Missionary brethren who labour in Pagan lands. Let none be weary, nor stumble, among them: none slumber nor sleep: neither suffer the girdle of their loins to be loosed nor the latchet of their shoes to be broken! Think too, O God of Abraham! of the branches broken off from the Ancient Root! Since we were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, may these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own Olive Tree!

Keep Thine Eye upon us this day, and may eventide find us with praising voices, and on bended kness, around this Domestic Altar in renewed acts of worship.

It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us! Therefore we plead, and cannot plead in vain ! Thine is the glory, O Holy Trinity, for ever! Amen.

"The Lord bless us," &c.
"Our Father," &c.

THURSDAY EVENING.

Be merciful unto us, O God! be merciful unto
us! for our soul trusteth in Thee; yea, in the
shadow of Thy wings will we make our refuge!
It is our guilt which needs Thy mercy.
other want is caused by it and
God be merciful to us sinners!

feel our occasion for such Mercy.
may we rejoice.
our hearts.

All

included in it. Humble us to

Hearing of it,

Let no pride blind or inflate

We have debased ourselves to hell.

Degraded we are to but not to receive it.

require Thy forgiveness, What honour dost Thou

put upon us! With what dignity dost Thou

invest us! That we should be called the children of God! That we should be invited to the fellowship of Christ Jesus! That the Kingdom should be prepared for us from the foundation of the world! May these inconceivable favours and privileges be conferred upon us. May we abide in Thy Tabernacle for ever: let us trust in the covert of Thy wings.

Be it deeply impressed on all our hearts that the veil of the Mediator's flesh must be rent, that the blood of the Great High Priest must be shed, to open a way by which sinners may reach and please Thee. Let us remember that it is by means of death! Let the Lamb of

God who taketh away the sin of the world, be the Paschal Lamb for this household, the Lamb according to our family. May His blood be sprinkled, not on our lintels, but on our souls!

We bless Thee for all the goodness which

Thou hast laid up for us, and which Thou dost abundantly lavish upon us. Thy paths drop fatness. Our life is much set by in the eyes of the Lord, who delivereth us out of all tribulation. Thou hast but to be angry, and we are troubled. Our souls will then have forgotten prosperity. But continue Thy loving-kindness to us. With temporal things we shall soon have done, yet Thou knowest that we have now need of these things. And through Thy free, rich, Grace bring us at last where we shall hunger no more nor thirst any more, where danger is for ever escaped and sorrow fled!

Look benignly down upon this family. Be the God of all who constitute it. May each soul say unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord! May it be an enclosure filled with the planting of the Lord! May it be an ark of quiet and peace, though the sea roar and be troubled ! May it be a lodgment of heaven upon earth, a home in which angels may be entertained, and God, even our own God, may dwell!

Grant that religion may adorn our character and lives. Let it never be to us a form of effort

and constraint.

May it breathe from us and around us. Let it be as a part of ourselves. Let its reflection and expression be simply easy. May we keep it as a pleasant thing within us; may it withal be fitted in our lips. May it shine upon us as a Divine Nature !

Whatever talents Thou hast entrusted to us, help us to employ aright. May we occupy until Thou shalt come. May we be faithful in the least. The cause that we know not, let us seek out. Let us not say, Behold we knew it not. Be another heart in us, to acquaint ourselves with lonely and unsuspected woe! to go about doing good! to work benefit to our neighbour! to weep with all who weep!

Be pleased to strengthen us for temptation and trial. The battle will soon be against us, if Thou do not deliver us! Our strength is so small that we must faint in the day of adversity, unless Thy power rest upon us! Vain is the help of man. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is on the Lord his God. Give us this meek, firm, dependence on Thee! So shall we not be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.

As we must needs die, and be as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered