SHORT FAMILY PRAYERS.

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Sunday Morning.

[FIRST WEEK.]

LMIGHTY LORD and Heavenly Father, look in mercy and kindness upon this Thy family, for the sake of Thy most dear Son our Saviour. We draw near to Thee, trusting in His precious blood, and making mention of His righteousness only. Accept us in Him, and make our services this day such as may please Thee, by the help

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of Thy Holy Spirit, without whom we can do nothing good and holy. As on this day of the week our Lord did rise from the dead, and so it is the Lord's own day, may we spend its blessed hours in Thy faith, and fear, and love; not thinking our own thoughts, nor speaking our own words, but trying to leave the world, for a time, to think and speak of Thee our God, and of heaven. Above all, be with us, we pray, in Thy house, and fit us for that eternal house of the Lord, where sin and sorrow cannot come.

But as heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people, and as we are weak and prone to offend Thee, we again implore that we may be in the Spirit on