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 in addressing Thy glorious person, acquainted as Thou art with our fruilty, we can even speak of the travail of the soul as evidenced in Thyself when tubernacling in the flesh on earth. Displaying Thy divine innocence, yet didst Thou experience heaviness and vexation of heart. How did the wickedness and the wretchedness of the world draw tears of compassion from Thee! Thy doctrine contemned, Thy followers traitors. Thy very sufferings and death sneered at and mocked!

In thie world we must have tribulation, but O, cheering assurance! Thou hast overcome the world, In Thee alone can rest and peace be found; to Thee alone the weary come, and Thou waitest to give them repose. While here there must be toil and labour. Our Life is but as the labour of a day. But Thou art our consolation, O Lord! To Thee we look for help! On our shoulders we humbly bear Thy yoke: O do Thou give rest to our souls. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

BATURDAY EVENING.

0 THOU sanetifying and regenerating Lord! while we review Thy

mercios, we think with astonishment and wonder, yet} with thanksgiving and praise, on all the love and tenderness with which we have been visited. As Jong as we have been inhabitants of the world. Thy goedness and truth have followed us. Initiated into Thy Church, the first tokens of Thy love were sprinkled upon us by the correspondence of Thy truth, and we were baptized with water unto repentance. Trained by the tenderness of parents, it was Thy love that was scen in theirs. Thy love that prompted theirs; and Thy wisdom, modified to meet our imfantine capacities, spoke to us in the simple accents of theiz parental regard. And now that in many of us years are mature. O assist us to receive the unction of Thy Spirit that we may become regenerate. As we advance in yeurs may the recollection of what we have passed through and of Thy providential guidance render us more humble, more grateful, more fervent in spirit, mors confident in faith, more devoted in love.

Help us in all things to repose ourselves on that goodness 'and merey which have followed ns all the days of our life.. Should temporal pros, pects change,—if for the better, aid us fo be more useful and to exercise our prosperity for the benefit of all Thy creatures; if for the warse, aid us that we may submit to the change, knowing that it cannot long endure, but when it has accomplished the end for which it was permitted, if shull tend to draw us into closer communion with Thee. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

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LORD Jesus Christ, Thou art the Lord of the Sabbath; unto Thee do we direct our prayer and will look up.

Thy consolations are still with us in the house of our pilgrimage: he that heareth Thy Word and doeth it, he it is that loveth Thee, and Thou wilt love and reveal Thyself unto him, and he shall be one with Thee, even as Thou art one with the Father. O gracious promise! OG cheering hope! Invigorated by it, we can abide the day of Thy coming, with