brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. Let glory dwell in our land, and upon all the glory may there be a defence. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Make bare thine arm in the sight of all the nations; and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, now and for evermore. Amen.

TUESDAY EVENING.

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O THOU Who wast, and art, and art to come, the Almighty. With Thee is the fountain of life. In thy presence there is fullness of joy, and at thy right-hand there are pleasures for evermore. is our privilege as well as our duty, to draw near to Thee. It is the prerogative of our nature, that of all creatures in this lower world, we alone are made capable of knowing, resembling, serving, and enjoying Thee. All our degradations and misery have been produced by our alienation and absence from Thee; and all our happiness and perfection depend upon our re-union and intercourse with Thee. We, therefore, bless Thee for the revelation Thou hast given us, and by which we learn, that thy thoughts towards us are thoughts of peace, and not of evil. We rejoice in a new and living way into the holiest, by the blood of Jesus, who has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. We pray that the grand design of this sacrifice may be accomplished in each of us. May we feel that we are brought back from the which sin had conveyed us,

dreadful distance to and that we are one

with God again; and henceforth, may the life that we lead in the flesh, be a life of communion with the Father of our spirits, and of devotedness to him. May thy service be the employment of our days, and the enjoyment of our hearts. May we love thy commands, and acquiesce in thy dispensations; and then we are at the gate of heaven.

We lament that this has been so little the case with us, since we have known Thee, or rather have been known of Thee. We ought to be ashamed to think, that after all the instructions of thy word, the ordinances of thy house, and the discipline of thy family, our ears are still so dull of hearing, and our hearts so slow to believe; that our souls so cleave unto the dust; that we live so much under the influence of things seen and temporal; and feel so little of the powers of a world to come. How obscure is our knowledge; how weak our faith; how low our hope; how wavering our obedience; how lifeless our worship. O Lord, clothe us with humility; and in this attire help us to present Thee the sacrifice of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, which Thou wilt not despise.

And since Thou art the God of all grace, and hast commanded us to ask and receive, that our joy may be full;-afford us more of the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ, to give more decision to our character, and more earnestness to our zeal; -that with enlarged hearts in the way of thy commandments we may run, and not be weary, and walk and not faint. May we always realize thy presence; and may the thought, that thine eye is upon us, operate as a check to sin, an excitement to duty, and a source of consolation. May we bear with firmness and submission the various trials of life and religion, and derive from them all the advantage which they are designed to afford. May

we glorify the Lord in the fires, and may every day of trouble afford us an opportunity to prove the truth of thy promise, the tenderness of thy care, and the supports of thy grace. May tribulation work patience, and patience experience, and experience hope.

But how few, how limited, and how light are the afflictions with which we are exercised. How much more reason have we to be thankful than to complain. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and all that is within us bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits; who forgiveth all our iniquities; who healeth all our diseases; who redeemeth our lives from destruction; who crowneth us with loving kindness and tender mercies.

We praise Thee for the protection, the supplies and the comforts of another day. Take us under thy care for the night on which we have entered. May no evil befall us, nor any plague come nigh our dwelling. Refresh our bodies, and renew our strength, by needful repose; and when we awake, may we be still with God, and rise to love Thee more, and serve Thee better, than we ever have done; through our Lord and Saviour, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

AGAIN We lift up our eyes unto the hills from whence cometh our help: our help is in the name of the Lord God, who made heaven and earth.

Thou art the Author of all existence, and the source of all blessedness. We adore Thee for making us capable of knowing Thee; for possessing us with reason, and conscience; and for leading us to inquire where is God my Maker that‍

giveth songs in the night. We praise Thee for all the information with which we are favoured, to bring us to thyself; especially the revelation of the gospel. Here we look into thy very heart, and see that it is the dwelling place of pity. Here we see thy thoughts towards us, and find that they are thoughts of peace and not of evil. Here we see Thee waiting to be gracious, and exalted to have Here Thou hast told our consciences how the guilty can be pardoned, the unholy can be sanctified, and the poor furnished with unsearchable riches.

mercy.

May we be found in the number of those who not only hear, but know the joyful sound, that we may walk in the light of thy countenance, in thy name rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness be exalted. May we take Thee, the God of truth, at thy word; and believe the record, that Thou hast given to us eternal life, and that this life is in thy Son. And since it is not only a faithful saying but worthy of all acceptance, that He came into the world to save sinners, to Him may we look alone for salvation, and with all the earnestness, the infinite importance of the case requires.

And to Him may we immediately repair, remembering how short and uncertain our time is; and filled with holy horror at the thought of closing a -life of precious, but neglected privileges, with the exclamation, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. We long for the experience of a present salvation, not only in the comforts, but in the renewings of the Holy Ghost. We desire to have nothing more to do with sin; and pray as sincerely to be restored to thy image, as to be re-instated in thy favour. We implore spiritual graces, as well as spiritual blessings; and pray that we may always value religious duties,

as religious privileges. Deliver us from the disposition of the slave, and uphold us, in all our goings, by thy free Spirit; and enable us to run in the way of thy commandments with freedom and delight.

May we cherish simplicity and godly sincerity of character; may we be in reality before God, what we are in appearance before men;-Israelites indeed, in whom is no guile. May we be religious before we profess religion, and leave the world, before we enter the church; that we may not be looking back after its forbidden follies and vanities, but, with our affection set on things that are above, walk worthy of Him who has called us to His kingdom and glory.

And while we are the partakers of thy grace, may we be also the dispensers too. Freely having received may we freely give. May we feel it to be the sublimest of all satisfactions, and count it the greatest of all rewards, to save a soul from death, and to hide a multitude of sins. And while endeavouring to do good, may we be prepared to bear evil. May we consider Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself; and if reviled, reviled not again; or if oppressed or slighted, never grew weary in well doing.

But, we bless Thee, that the lines are fallen to us in pleasant places: we are strangers to the sufferings of those who have gone before us; and can, not only sit ourselves, but call every man his neighbour, under the vine and under the fig-tree. May we avail ourselves of our opportunities; and invite those around us to taste and see that the Lord is good, while it is called to-day, knowing how soon the night cometh wherein no man can work.

O God count us worthy of this calling, and ful