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 FORTY-SECOND WEEK. 209

eatablishment of @ new and true Church, in, which righteousness and peace sball dwell for ever; and we feel that truth combined with goodnesé can alone be the constituents of a true Church; for Thon lovest righteousness in the inward parte.

Lord, we thank Thee for permitting ua ta become the visible members of Thy true Church on earth. O make us sensible of the deep responsibility which is thue entailed upon us; give us to perceive that the more interior and elevated our perception of trath is, the more does it become us 60 to let our light shine, that our Father in the heavens may be glorified. Amen.

'Our Father, eto.

SABBATH EVENING,

Busse and honour and thanksgiving be unto Thee. O Lord:

Thou hast graciously privileged us fo enjoy this Sabbath. Thou hast opened the treasures of Thy trnth before us. Thou hast abundantly satisfied us with the fatness of Thy house and eansed us to drink of the rivers of Thy pleagurea.

Thy servant our minister has instructed us in our duty, and has told us if we do our duty we shall become kings and priests unto Thee.

How glorious is the privilege to be permitted to pray within thy temple; to withdraw the mind from thet which is external, and in the spirit and power of trne religion to feel our souls drawn into consociation with angelic beings, and to worship Thee who art a Spirit in spirit and in truth. Glorious privilege to know that ministering spirits wait around the dwellings of the just; and atill more glorious to have the power in spirit to behold that all affection and purity, all truth and, holiness, are embodied in the spirita of the just made perfect, and that these glorioug spirits act as mediums between us and the heavenly world, filling us with a devout confidence that, in proportion ag our worship is sincere, and from an internal conviction of the goodness of our glorified Lord, so will our prayers rise up as memorials before His throne. He will bless us, and dwell with ns. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

LORD God, merciful and gracious, how excellent is Thy loving kindness; therefore do the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings. Thou hast protected us during the past night; we have slept in peace, for Thou Lord sustained us.

We now humbly acknowledge Thy protecting providence, and at the commencement of another week of labour desire to dedicate ourselves anew to Thy service. Help us, therefore, to deny ourselves, to take up our cross, and to follow Thee; we feel we cannot follow Thee as Thy faithful disciples, unless we first surrender all that we have; this is Thy special condition: "Unless ye forsake all that ye have, ye cannot be my disciples." Lord, help us to be obedient to this condition; and the powers, talents, and faculties with which Thou hast endowed us, help us to use in Thy service. While the world calls upon us for the due