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 Prayer for Tuesday Morning. 265

fully should we acknowledge Thy fatherly love in our daily preservation!

Lord, confirm us in the practice of that truth which we have this night heard. Itis by truth alone that we can discover the deformity and hideousness of evil. It is bytruth we are admonished against our pollutions.

O God, we desire to humble ourselves before Thee, and to acknowledge our transgression; while we, at the same time, offer our devout gratitude that Thou hast addressed us in so many precepts of Thy word, warning us not to tarry inthe valley of our own unhallowed loves,—that shadow of death, which will, if we continue in it, but too surely leave us in eternal misery. O, aid us to shun evil in every alluring garb in which it presents itself; so shall we escape that pain and anguish which ever waits upon the commission of sin.

Our Father, &e.

OST holy, righteous, and glorified Lord, Thou art the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending; who wast, who art, and who art to come, the Almighty. Thou art the well-spring of life. In Thee are hidden all the treasures of knowledge; and Thou art the fountain of happiness in time, and wilt continue to be through eternity.

We, who, in this our low estate, are but creatures of a day, draw near to Thee, to offer our morning sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, and to supplicate Thy benediction on the duties of another day; for without the support of Thy hand, we are destitute of