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 unto the clouds! We bless Thee—we magnify Thy great and holy name, that Thou hast been pleased to create us, and still to surround us with thy providential care and protection. May we feel sensible of Thy goodness, and thankful for those mercies which we daily receive at Thy hands!

"In Thee we live, and move, and have our being." "In Thy presence there is fulness of joy, and at Thy right hand are pleasures for evermore!" We acknowledge Thee, O Lord Jesus, to be the God of our salvation! our rock! our mighty deliverer, and our sure refuge from every storm! We therefore, with grateful hearts, lift up our souls to thee, and with one accord exclaim, "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! heaven and earth are full of thy glory."

Our Father, &c.

LORD GOD and Saviour Jesus Christ, we would humbly lift up our affections and thoughts to Thee in prayer. We thank thee that Thou hast, by Thy tender care, brought us again to the close of another six day's labour, preparatory to the approaching day of rest. Enable us to see that every Sabbath on earth below is a type of that eternal Sabbath of peaceful rest above, where all cares and trials, to which we are subject in our probationary state, are changed into the joy and tranquillity of angelic life. O Lord, prepare us by Thy Divine Spirit for the delightful services of the morrow. May we mingle