ways; on whom we are dependent for all the privileges, blessings and comforts, of this life, and for all the means and instrumentalities of preparing us for a better.

We thank thee for thy kind and protecting care of us another day and another week; that thou hast kept us ever beneath thy watchful eye and protecting hand, and in great mercy hast brought us to the close of the day and of the week still surrounded with thy goodness, and still among the living to praise thee. Wilt thou forgive the sins of the day, of the week, and of our whole lives. May all thy mercies lead us to repentance, even to that repentance whose fruit is unto holiness, and whose end is everlasting life.

We commend ourselves to thy holy protection and keeping this night. May we lie down in the fear and love of God. May our sleep be quiet and refreshing to us. Spread over us the wing of an ever-guardian providence, and preserve us from every danger and from every alarm; and bring us to behold the light of another morning, even another of the days of the Son of man, in health and in peace. Prepare us, O God of the Sabbath, for the return of holy time. May we be in the spirit on the Lord's day. With the beams of the natural sun may the Sun of righteousness arise upon our souls with healing in his wings, and fill us with all joy and peace in believing. Give us such admiring views of thy creating power and wisdom, thy providential care and kindness, and thy

redeeming love and grace, as shall fill our souls with the deepest reverence for thy character, the purest love of thy perfections, the liveliest hope in thy mercy, and the sublimest joy in thy more immediate worship and service. And at the close of the Sabbath day may we have the satisfaction of reflecting that we have devoted one day more to the service of our God and Redeemer; that we have made some advance in the Christian life, some better preparation for the joys and services of the kingdom and temple above.

We pray for those who are appointed to minister at thine altar, and to dispense the bread of life and the water of life to them who are ready to perish. May they be baptized anew with the spirit and power of the truth as it is in Jesus. And clad in the Christian armor may they go forth to their work with the fearlessness of men engaged in the service of God, and seeking the salvation of them that are lost. And wilt thou give them that best reward in this life, that purest of satisfactions, that greatest of joys to the teacher's heart, the satisfaction and the joy of seeing the people of their charge, under their ministration, crowding the gates of Zion, flocking to her solemn feasts, listening to divine instruction, and walking in thy truth.

We pray for our country and its rulers. May those who are appointed to rule over us prove themselves to be able men, such as fear God; men of truth, hating covetousness, seeking the good of their country and

their race, and the glory of thy holy name. Under the protection of just and equal laws, and a wise and righteous administration, may the people lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty.

May the blessings which we ask for ourselves and our country be extended to the whole human family, until every nation, tongue and people, shall unite with the heavenly hosts in ascribing glory to God in the highest, because there is peace on earth, and goodwill to men.

This our prayer we offer unto thee the Infinite Father, in the name and as the disciples of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

XLV.

Sunday Evening.

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.

We thank thee

OUR FATHER who art in heaven. that we have been visited with another day of sacred rest, rest for the body and rest for the soul. We thank thee for all the Christian privileges we have enjoyed; for all the spiritual refreshment and strength we have received; for every word of truth our ears have heard; for every penitent emotion our hearts have felt; for every good desire that has been awakened; for every worthy purpose that has been formed; for every holy aspiration that has been enkindled.

O God, give to all these Sabbath influences power to draw our souls upward, and to bring us nearer and nearer to thee in spirit and purpose, nearer and nearer to Christ in heart and life. O, that our souls might be so opened upward that the Father and the Son might come and make their abode with us; that we might be baptized afresh each day with the Holy Spirit, and with the fire of a sacred love for God and goodness. May we experience more and more of the renewing power of the Gospel. May the spirit of selfishness and sin be cast out of our hearts. May we become new creatures in Christ Jesus, filled and animated by a new love for God our heavenly Father, for man our earthly brother, and for whatsoever things are pure, honest, just, and lovely.

We pray for all mankind. Thou hast made of one blood all nations. We are all children of one Father; all dependent upon thy bounty and love. We pray

that all may share in the blessings of the Gospel ; that the truth and love and spirit of Christ may go forth with its redeeming power, until all hearts shall feel its benign and saving influence; until all hate, and retaliation, and war, and slavery, and intemperance, and every other form of evil and wrong, shall cease, and thy kingdom come on earth, and thy will be done in the hearts of thy children as it is done in heaven.

With this prayer upon our lips and in our hearts, we would seek the repose of another night. May we rest securely beneath the shadow of thy wings, and rise with the light of another morning refreshed and strengthened in body and in spirit for the duties of this week. We ask it as disciples of thy Son our Saviour. Amen.

XLVI.

Sunday Evening.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.