A Christian traveller I am,

Prepared to follow Thee, O Lamb,
Wherever Thou dost go;

O'er mountains, deserts, hills and plains,
Thro' heat and cold, thro' storms and rains,
And floods, and frost, and snow.

When on the brink of death I stand,
I seem so near the heavenly land,
That I my pain forget;

My time is fixed by Thy decree,
I long that happy day to see
When I this flesh shall quit.

Thou, Lord, attendest all my ways;
Open my lips to sing Thy praise
For blessings freely given;

In all my journeyings here below,
Let Thy full presence with me go,
And bring me safe to heaven.

PART II.

Family Prayers.

1. ON A BAPTISM IN THE FAMILY.

2. ON ONE OF THE FAMILY GOING OUT INTO THE

WORLD.

3. ON THE MARRIAGE OF ONE OF THE FAMILY.

4. IN TIME OF AFFLICTION.

5. IN TIME OF SICKNESS.

6. THANKSGIVING AFTER SICKNESS.

7. IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.

8. FOR THE CHILDREN OF A FAMILY.

BE of good courage, as many of you as are waiting, but have not yet seen the dawn: who pray, but pray with effort; who believe, yet are full of unbelief. Still pray, and still believe, and still watch: turn not back, do not give up the point whereunto you have attained, but abide there with anxious patience. Watch your lives carefully, weed out every sin you can observe: this is the proof that you are in earnest, and not liars to God and to yourselves but wait and pray for Christ to appear, and to establish you with his righteousness.

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Family Prayers.

I.

On a Baptism in the Family.

SENTENCES.

WE say that baptism is a sacrament of the remission of sins, and of that washing which we have in the blood of Christ, and that none who will profess the faith of Christ are to be denied that sacrament; nor the infants of Christians, because they are born in sin, and belong to the people of God.

HAST thou a child? Give not time to vice to gain upon him: let him be sanctified from a child, and consecrated to the Spirit from his tender years.

THE sins of men baptized into Christ are worse than the sins of the heathen. The handling of holy things without holiness is an

awful mystery of condemnation. Yet all such men are branches of the vine, though dying or dead, twice dead, waiting for the sharp sickle and the burning, yet branches still; and in hell it may be the waters of baptism shall scorch more fiercely than the fire that is not quenched, and the cross which was drawn upon their foreheads eat into their soul as if it were graven with a finger of flame.

TEXTS.

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John iii. 5.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark xvi. 16.

Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth; Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Mat. xxviii. 18, 19.