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 our temporal blessings? Our various wants return with the morning, and to whom should we lock but to him who is able to supply them? We need his direction through the perplexities and difficulties of every day and without his gracious interposition and support, we can effect nothing to any valuable purpose. In the evening we seek rest in vain un ess he give slumber to the eye lids. and sleep to the eyes: now as these are wants common to every family and what all its members constantly experience, they ought certainly to unite in supplicating the same divine goodness, and also in returning thanks for the mercies of which they have all jointly been partakers. Surely each can say with the Psalmist, It is good to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name O most high: to shew forth thy loving kindress in the morning, and thy faithfulnes every night; for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Family worship is indeed, so reasonable in itself, and calculated to answer such valuable purposes,