ing in all Thy works. Open Thou our eyes into undimmed vision of the beauty of holiness, that our souls may feel its renewing power. Breathe upon our faith, that it may become a quickening spirit, and upon our hope, that it may become a living trust. May Thy holy word be within us as the ever-burning fire on the altar of old, and our speech continually glow with refining and ennobling thoughts.

Help us to honor Thee in all the duties of life. Not slothful in business, may we be fervent in spirit, serving the LORD. May our homes be sanctuaries of peace and good-will, opening into the kingdom of heaven, and the angels pass through our hearts in their mission of sympathy and charity.

Deliver us, O LORD, from the sin and woe of striving against Thee. Save us, we beseech Thee, from laying up sorrow against a cloudy and bitter day; and in the darkest night of our experience, and in the dark valley, may we walk in the starlight of Thy presence, and feel our supplication transformed into a psalm of praise.

Hear us, O Lord, and have mercy upon us: 0 Lord, be Thou our Helper.

THOU

¶ Thanksgiving.

HOU art, O GOD, the fountain of light and life, and gratitude traces every stream of happiness to its source in Thee.

All that memory testifies, of joy experienced

forth in Thy hopeful and helpful promise, meet in this hour of devotion, to exalt our souls into thankfulness and praise.

O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever.

Thou hast called upon us to love Thee with all the heart and mind; yet who are we, that Thou shouldst seek to win the regard of all our powers! and what are we, that Thou shouldst desire or accept our love at all!

We praise Thee for having made every thing beautiful in its time, and for all things bountiful in our time of need.

We bless Thee for reason and conscience, for the generosities and joys of social life, for freedom of worship, and for the liberties of the land.

Above all, we adore Thee for the merciful mission of Thy beloved Son, for the means of grace, for light in darkness, for strength in weakness, for comfort in sorrow, and for the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith in the Redeemer's triumph over death and hell.

Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

THE

Hymn. The Sermon. Prayer. Hymn. Benediction.

HE peace of GOD, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds, through Jesus Christ, for evermore. Amen.

Order of Public Worship.

THIRD.

¶ After a Hymn, the Congregation will rise, and join the Minister in the following, in verses alternately. Another

THE

Selection may be substituted.

THE LORD reigneth: let the people tremble: Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. He maketh darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him is dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

He maketh the clouds His chariot, the winds His messengers, and His ministers a flaming fire.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my GoD: He heard my voice out of His holy temple, and my cry came before Him.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was under His feet.

Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my GOD, Thou art exceeding glorious: Thou art clothed with honor and majesty.

Thou coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain.

To the merciful Thou showest Thyself merciful, and righteous to the upright: To the pure Thou wilt appear pure, and wrathful to the froward.

Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence, O LORD.

As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness.

Show Thy marvellous loving-kindness, O LORD: Guard me as the apple of the eye: Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings.

-The LORD reigneth: let the earth rejoice: Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. Clouds and dark

ness are round about Him: Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne: Mercy and truth shall go before His face.

Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O LORD, in the light of Thy counte

nance.

In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

Alleluia! for the LORD GOD Omnipotent reigneth.

FAT

[LET US PRAY.]

ATHER OF LIGHTS, whose promise of blessing is established in the purpose of Thy grace: Open to our meditations the glory of Thy truth, that our hearts may be opened to the fulness of Thy love; and grant, we beseech Thee, that all who seek Thy presence in the communion of prayer, may find Thy peace in the fellowship of praise.

¶ All unite in the Lord's Prayer.

Reading the Scriptures. A Hymn. After which, one or more of the following Sentences may introduce the Exhortation.

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Matthew xxii. 37-40.

HOU shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Romans xii. 1, 2.

I BESEECH you, brethren, by the mercies of GOD, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what, is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

1 John i. 8, 9.

Ir we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews viii. 10, 12.

THIS is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the LORD: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts. And I will be to them a GOD, and they shall be to me a people....for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no

more.

¶ The Exhortation.

BRETHREN, AND CHRISTIAN FRIENDS: An

assurance of the presence and mercy of the good Father of All, maketh even the wilderness and solitary places glad, and whoso, though alone, shall silently commune with his own heart, and with the LORD, will find grace to help in time of need; yet are we admonished not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is.

And forasmuch as the fellowship of two or three disciples hath the promise of a blessing, I beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me, with an humble and contrite spirit, to the throne of the heavenly grace.

FATE

[LET US PRAY.]

ATHER ALMIGHTY, Thou who dwellest in the high and holy place, with him also who is of an humble and contrite spirit: Enable us to come before Thee in the lowliness of worship, seeking the blessing of Thy merciful presence.

Forbid, O LORD, that we should acknowledge unworthiness that we do not feel; yet deliver us, we beseech Thee, from self-delusion, and quicken us into solemn thoughts of what we should be, and of what we are, that we may see