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LORD JESUS, our divine Father, our merciful Friend and Saviour, we thank Thee for having granted us, at this time, to approach Thee in humility and prayer: we thank Thee for Thy watchful providence in preserving us through the night, bestowing on us refreshing sleep, and in bringing us by Thy love to experience the joy that cometh in the morning. Lord Jesus! without Thee we are wholly unable to do any thing; but in Thy divine strength, which Thou freely impartest to Thy servants every moment, we can do all things, and keep Thy sayings in truth. O grant, that by keeping our affections on Thee, we may so love the holy things of Thy kingdom, as not to mingle them with any unclean desires of our hearts, or suffer the pearls of heavenly wisdom to be trampled on by the filthy love of worldly sensuality and uncleanness. Cleanse us, O heavenly Father, from all evil and sin; so shall we finally be numbered amongst the pure in heart. Blessed shall we then be, for Thou hast promised that all such shall see Thee. O God of mercy, go before us through all our daily duties, and give us to feel that when Thou art seen to go in and out before us, to precede us in our inmost thoughts, and to go before us to lead the way in all our external actions of life, then shall our hours pass quietly and righteously on, and our end shall be peace.

Our Father, &c.