My soul also is sore troubled; but Lord, how long wilt thou punish me? Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake. Depart from me, all ye who work vanity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord hath heard my petition; the will receive my prayer.

PSALM 42.

Lord

thanks for the help of his

countenance.

The Lord hath granted his loving kindness in the day time; and in the night season did I sing unto him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is now thy God?

Why art thou, so cast down, O my soul; and why art thou so disquieted

within me ?

AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God. J

My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God; when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul; and Omy why art thou so disquieted within me

offot tr Put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him

Turn us again, O God, show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be an

gry with thy people who prayeth?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.

Turn us again, thou God of hosts, show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole, o Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. H4 Ẵ

Thou madest room for it; and when it had taken root, it filled the land.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar

She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all those who go by pluck off her grapes?

The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, and the wild beast of the field devour it.

Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven; behold, and visit this vine;

And the place of the vineyard that thy right

Then may follow an anthem or a Voluntary on the Organ; and then the 'Minister shall read the FIRST LESSON, which may be either of the following portions from the Old Testament. Isaiah Iviii. Hosea. xiv. Joel ii. Z!.. And at the end of the Lesson he shall say, Here endeth the First Lesson. Then shall be said, or sung, the following portion of the 103d Psalm

Then shall the Ministér read the SECOND LEShSON, which may be either

of the following portions from the New Testa

Mark ii. 15 to 21.

And at the end of the Ees

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from

usgol ularojnti) Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children; even so the Lord pitieth those who fear him.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are but dust. od The days of man are but as grass; he flourisheth as a flower of the field.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. broI But the merciful good ness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon those who fear him, and his righteousness upon children's children ;

son he shall say, Here endeth the Second Les

son.

Then shall be said

d or sung the following Psalm.

GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and show us the light of his countenance, and be mer ciful unto us, oni leje ndr to That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saying health among all na tions. 92m 9 N do.dw

Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee. 19

let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earthed od 22911

Let the people, praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee.

COLLECT FOR FAST DAY.

} ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, who lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity, and art a compassionate Father to those who repent and turn unto thee; we would come before thee this day, humbly confessing our sins, and beseeching thee to impress upon our minds every motive to sincere repentance and a holy life.ruge

O thou Supreme Direc tor of the affairs of human society; we thank thee for the advantages of our condition that we enjoy liberty, safety and plenty that the lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and that we have a goodly heritage. Yet we have made unworthy returns for thy loving kindness; we have shown ourselves undeserving of thy mercy: We lament that plenty has been abused by luxury, and liberty by licentiousness; our peace and safety, by strife, envyings, and divis ions; that so little of the power of godliness is manifested; that so many re strain prayer before thee, and notwithstanding the expressions of thy will, do

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yet despise or neglect thy laws. Surely it is of thy mercy that we are not consumed, and because thy compassions fail not.

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We beseech thee to grant thy mercy unto us who have corrupted our manners, who have been indifferent to thy worship g indulged too much a spirit of pride and uncharitable ness, and have become too strongly attached to the world and the things of the world. Awaken us to a sense of our unworthiness pardon the sins of our nation; forgive all those who humble themselves this day before thee, and spare thy people; animate us to unite with one heart in promoting the honour of thy name, the interests of religion, and the prosperity and hap piness of our country. May we keep the fast which thou hast chosen; and loosng every band of wickedness, become a peculiar people zealous of good works, that thy displeasure may be turned away from us, and that thou mayest delight to build us up and not destroy us.

O thou, who art the Lord of lords, and the Fountain of all power, we