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 Prayer for Thursday Morning. 355

guest. Thou art the source of all thatis good. There is nothing true which contains not Thy essential wisdom. Help us to acquire the singleness of eye which may ever behold Thee in. Thy purity, and that holiness of heart which may love Thee for Thy purity. May we look to Thee as our Divine Father, and wait for Thy instruction as for the counsel of true wisdom; so shall we be safely conducted from this world to Thy heavenly kingdom. Our Father, &c.

LORD GOD of our salvation; again the cheerful sun, the emblem of Thy untiring love, streams in at our windows, bidding us arise to our various duties. As our eyes are directed to the glorious orb of day, which Thou hast created—as his cheerful beams chase away the clouds of night, and, from a state of torpor, call into activity all creatures, of every kind or degree which Thou hast made—how are we privileged in being instructed, through Thy Word, that it is an image of the Sun of Righteousness? And if, to our sight, it appears so transcendently glorious, what must be the splendour of Thy Divine Person, from Whom alone its glory comes? If Thou hast created him to operate as the source of life to things natural, what must be the power of that life—that divine heat—which gives to the innumerable suns, fixed in the immensity of space, their fervency; and enables them as media, to impart heat and light to the myriads of living beings who people the worlds