Ever hast Thou

preached gospel all its success. honoured it. By it Thou hast subdued kingdoms. Thou hast caused it to shake the gates of hell. Yet Thou art jealous that the instruments whom Thou dost send should not take Thy glory. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. May we never serve the creature. May we never place man to sit as God in the temple of God. May we esteem such very highly for their work's sake, never depreciate those whom Thou sent, rejoice that to our fellow-man a dispensation of the gospel has been committed, obey them who have the rule over us, and still remember that the excellency of the power is of God, and not of them!

Be pleased to bless our own pastor. May he be filled with all the gifts which the ascended Saviour received for the purpose of such endowment. May we respond to his earnest claim and suit upon our prayers. May our conversion give his soul its best delight, and our spiritual improvement strengthen his hands. May we love to help together with him, cheerfully co-operate in his attempts at usefulness, protect his character and subserve his success!

Rest

Remember our honoured missionaries. in Thy love, as in Thy Sabbath, toward them. Our calm blessed day visits but few of the lands

where they wander. Thou hast not increased thus the joy of those people. Theirs are the habitations of cruelty. Their sorrows are multiplied in hastening after another God. Let our brethren stand fast in the faith; may they be precious in Thy sight, honourable, and loved by Thee; give men to them, and people for their life!

O what a day is rolling forward, and what a blessing may it prove! How does affliction lift its eye, waiting for its light! How does penitence anticipate its healing balm! How does the ruffled heart long for its quiet! Be it to them according to their faith! But others only meditate for it plans of dissipating pleasure and sin. May Thy grace surprise them! May He, whom they persecute, meet them in the way! May to-morrow's sun set upon their weeping eyes, their stricken conscience, their contrite hearts! May May they be added unto the Lord! Such a hope as this might make us cry, Would God it were morning!

And now, O Lord our God, we leave ourselves with Thee, these frail bodies, these helpless spirits, these cherished ties, our habitation, our all. And then a few hours past, may we awake to a day of rest shining upon us like a gleam from heaven!

And grant, O our Father, that when the

work of life shall draw to its end, as now has the labour of the week, we may be able to say, what now we say, To-morrow is our Sabbath, -but what we cannot now say, To-morrow is the Sabbath of eternity!

To the Father, the Son, the Spirit, of the Holy Trinity, we would ascribe glory everlasting! Our Hosannah on earth until we raise our Hallelujah in heaven!

"The grace of our Lord," &c.

Second Week.

LORD'S DAY MORNING.

THE day is Thine, O Lord! Our every day is Thine. Thy sun enlightens, warms, and cheers it. Thy blessing can alone render its hours pleasant. Thy grace alone can cause us to feel its duties easy and inviting. Thy restraint alone can keep us from offending amidst its enjoyments. Day unto day uttereth speech. How clear and forcible its witness that Thou art great and good!

All our days are Thine! That which opened upon our birth: that which shall close upon our death. Surely goodness and mercy have followed, and as surely shall follow, us all the days of our lives. some proofs that cared for us.

Not one has passed without Thou hast remembered and And if we be Thy children,

thou hast spoken concerning us for a great

while to come.

come are ours!

Things present and things to

But this day is peculiarly Thine! This is

the day which Thou hast made.

Thou didst

see all things which Thou hadst made, and behold, they were very good. Still we read these generations of the heavens and of the earth. And still Thou makest us glad through Thy work we will triumph in the works of Thy hands. But we would keep a nobler festival than even of Creation and we sing Thy blest praise, the exceeding riches of Thy grace, Thou Great God our Saviour. In Thy love and pity, Thou hast redeemed us. Glory to God in the highest! Hosannah in the highest! Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let Thy glory be above all the earth. Blessed be the Lord God from everlasting to everlasting! And we would now address Thee with a distinct remembrance that without shedding of blood there is no remission. The Lamb was slain. But our affections are risen with Christ, and set themselves on Him who is in the midst of the Throne. We rejoice that it is witnessed that He liveth. The wounds which poured out blood, now pour forth intercession.

Help us by Thy Holy Spirit! He who brooded over all things when without form, and dark, and void, and reduced them to order and robed them with light, until Sabbath dawned upon them,-may He move over the face of our souls, dispel their gloom, subdue their disqui