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LORD Jesus Christ, the God of all consolation, we approach Thee this morning with humility and gratitude. We will magnify Thee; we will exalt Thy name for ever and ever. We will seek Thee, 0 Lord, for Thou wilt deliver us from all our fears. It is a great consolation to Thy people when they have seen the hand of Thy providence as their guide.

O glorified Redeemer, who hast undertaken fo carry us from the spiritual Egypt to the land of promise, how faithful to Thy gracious promise, how powerful in the hour of danger, have we found Thee. How fearlessly should we go forward in our trust upon Thee. Lord, when difficulty besets us on every side; when contempt and hatred and poverty, yea, and even death itself, surrounds,—still aid us to keep the eyes of our spirit open, that we may elevate the interiors of our minds to a contemplation of Thy divine perfections, and through the long vista of toil and care and suffering, still behold Thee beckoning us onward. O may we with humble confidence always exclaim when trouble assails us,—Lord, if it be Thou, bid me that I come unto Thee through the water of this trying affliction.

Another week of trial has opened upon us, and again, O Lord, we supplicate Thine aid, for we know Thou wilt lay no other burthens upon us than such as we are able to bear, and those burthens only that tend to promote our purification. Lord, we trust in Thee; help us to go through this week's duties, for Thy name and mercy sake. Amen.

Our Father, etc.

LORD Jesus Christ, who art ever merciful and gracious, let our prayer come up unto Thee in an acceptable time; and in the multitude of Thy tender mercies hear us, and answer us from Thy holy habitation.

Another day has passed of our natural existence, and the evening reminds us of that important period when time with us shall be no more, but shall usher us into the commencement of eternity. As time speeds rapidly onward, the necessity of regeneration becomes every day more obvious; and we are led by the divine dispensations of Thy providence to see the pursuits of the world as necessary spheres of usefulness while here below, but conducive to our regeneration only as they lead to a more perfect desire for the things above. Where the affections are set upon worldly possessions, and the mind toils only that bodily delights may be secured, as though they were to last for ever, how can we become regenerate? how can we attain that new birth without which it is impossible to enter heaven? Surely in this condition men of high degree are vanity, and men of low degree are a lie; and men of every degree who fondly cling to the present as their chief good, are but in the deceptive mazes of insanity.

O how wisely dost Thou deal with us. As human and divine knowledge is acquired by "line upon line and precept upon precept," so is man brought to see the necessity of regeneration by trial upon trial; and Thy righteous dispensations are so exercised, that our trials are