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 Thou wilt cherish and support. Thou art our portion from generation, to generation. Thou suppliest us with the good of Thy love; and this we feel as the meat of our souls, as the nourishment most suited to render us strong to labour, and to fit us to bear the trials of our earthly state.

Lord, help us to keep ever in view the obedience of the confiding multitude, who, when commanded to sit down by Thee believed that Thou wert able to multiply the means of their existence; and the five loaves and the two fishes, which filled so great a multitude, may we consider as an assurance, that if we do our duty, Thou wilt have compassion upon us, and wilt feed us with food convenient for us.

O Lord, we go forth to our work and to our labour until the evening. Prosper Thou the work of our hands, we beseech Thee; teach us to be faithful to the earthly steward Thou hast placed over us. Instruct us; guide us; go before us in the way we should pursue. Keep us in a calm, and equable, and cheerful temper, and aid us to do good to every one that comes within the sphere of our duty.

Our Father, &c.

Monday Evening.

LORD ALMIGHTY, our heavenly Father, whose eyes behold, whose eyelids try the children of men; we again approach Thy mercy seat; we appear in Thy presence with a decp conviction of Thy Ommiscience. We cannot hide our condition from Thee; our thoughts are ali open to Thy sight.