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 offer up this holy Prayer, and utter the words, "Our Father, who art in the heavens," let us bring distinctly before our minds the Divine Form and Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, holding out, as it were, his arms to us, and saying tenderly, as he said on earth, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Looking thus to him who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," who has "all power in heaven and earth," who is "the light of the world," we may reasonably hope for an answer to our prayer; we may hope to receive that light and truth which will guide us in the way of life everlasting; we may trust that we shall be delivered from evil and blessed with good; and that with us, at least, his "kingdom will come, and his will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."