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LMIGHTY and most merciful Lord, with feelings of thankfulness we humbly desire to approach Thee this morning, to adore Thee for the continuance of Thy Fatherly love towards us. What can we render unto Thee for all Thy benefits? Thou desirest not sacrifice, but hast pleasure in all those who do Thy will, and we can only become Thy disciples as we do whatsoever Thou commandest us. O assist us to acquire this spirit of obedience, and with patience and perseverance to continue in well doing.

Lord, we desire to confess in Thy presence, how deceitful have been our hearts, how desperately wicked. In turning our eyes inwardly, and con- templating our own state, we may with truth say, wickedness burneth as a fire, aud our evils rise up in fearful array against us. O how frail, how weak, how fallible, we are! If left to pursue our own guilty courses unchecked, how speedily should we accomplish our destruction. Truly do the passing events of each day testify against us, "that the heart gathereth iniquity to itself.”

Lord, help us. Send forth the dispensations most suitable to effect a change. Be mereiful unto us. Create in us a clean heart, O God, and lead us in the way everlasting. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

TUESDAY EVENING.

0 LORD Almighty, our Heavenly Father, through Thy merey we have been safely brought through the toils and perils of another day, and we now humbly approach ‘Thee, to offer up cur evening thanksgivings for past mercies, and to pray for the continuance of Thy love towards us. We have heard Thy voice in Thy Word, we have seen Thee in the wonderful interpositions of Thy providence exercised in our behalf, all undeserving as we are; and while we acknowledge Thy purity, “we abhor ourselyes ” for our evils, “ and repent in dust and ashes.”

O merciful Father, assist us to bring ourselves under a devout obedience to Thy will, for in Thy favour ia life. Thy merey is ever new towards as.

We praise Thee, O Lord, for Thine inestimable love in the work of our redemption. O how wonderfal must be that love, which eondescended to take the frailty and imperfection of humanity as a garment where- with to elothe Thy divinity, and thereby be enabled to mest with and overcome man’s spiritual enemies. “+ Thine own arm brought salvation unto Thee, Thy righteousness it sustained Thee,” and having reconciled the world unto Thyself, ‘‘ we now joy in God, through Thee our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the atonement.” May Thy holy name be glorified. Muy all the peuple say continually, Tho Lord be magnified. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

LORD, the High, the Holy One that inhabiteth eternity, permit us, Thy sinful creatures, to approach Thee this morning, and to offer unto Thee our united thanksgivings and praises.