of our mercy. In the morning we committed ourselves to thy care, and Thou hast been with us in our going out and our coming in, and hast kept us in all our ways. Pardon whatever Thou hast seen amiss in us through nother period of our time. Accept the charge of us through the approaching night, and grant us the sleep which Thou givest thy beloved; for we hope we desire it not only as creatures, but as Christians; not only to gratify our feelings, but to renew our strength for thy serice, and to fit us to glorify Thee in our bodies as well as n our spirits, through our adorable Redeemer. Amen.

TUESDAY MORNING.

O THOU onnipresent and omniscient Jehovah! Thou art about our path, and our lying down; and Thou art acquainted with all our ways. There is not a word in our tongue, but lo! O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. Thou understandest our very thoughts afar off. Yea the darkness hideth not from Thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.

Known therefore to Thee are our sins, with every ag gravation; and our necessities, with all their circumstances. Yet Thou requirest us to confess our guilt, and to spread our wants before Thee, in order that we ourselves may be suitably affected with them, and be prepared for the promised displays of thy goodness. Every view we take of ourselves convinces us that we lie entirely at thy mercy, and that it is only because thy compassions. fail not we are not consumed. We know not the evil there is in one sin; and our iniquities are more in number han the hairs of our head. Thou art our creator; but of he rock that begat us we have been unmindful, and have

forgotten the God that formed us. Thou hast nourished and brought up children; but we have rebelled against Thee. Thou hast given us laws, founded in a regard to our welfare as well as thine own glory; but we have said with our lives, if not with our lips, Who is the Lord, that we should obey his voice? Thou art the perfection of beauty, the centre of excellency, the source of all blessedness; and Thee we ought to have loved supremely but we have loved and served the creature more than the Creator: we have loved idols, and after them we have gone. Instead of praying, Lord, lift Thou up the light of thy countenance upon us, we have asked with the multitude, Who will show us any good? Departing from Thee, we have made flesh our arm. We have leaned on broken reeds, and though they have disappointed our hopes, and pierced us through with many sorrows, we have often returned to the same wretched dependence. Thou hast raised up for us a Saviour; and the gospel has presented to our view a plan of redemption and renovation which the angels desire to look into. But we have crowned all our guilt, by neglecting so great salvation, and turning away from Him that speaketh from heaven; and we deserve to be forever excluded from all the blessings of the

cross.

) deal not with us after our desert, but according to our necessity; and where sin has abounded, may grace much more abound. Over all our unworthiness may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. It is thy pleasure that we seek Thee. The desires we feel are of thine own producing. We are willing to be saved in thy own way. We love thy salvation; we love it as it is free, and secures to thyself the undivided glory; and we love it as it is holy, and designed to save us from the power as well as the penalty of sin. O visit us with thy salvation! Shine into our hearts, and

give us the light of the knowledge of thy glory in the face

Enable us by faith to

embrace thy un

of Jesus Christ. speakable gift. May we sit at his feet. May we glory in May we imbibe his spirit. May we follow his example; and whatsoever we do, in word or deed, may we do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

his cross.

We extend our wishes beyond the little circle now kneeling in thy presence. We have various absent con nexions endeared to our hearts: O place them under thy agency as the God of grace; and keep them under thy care as the God of providence.

We would remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and those that suffer adversity as being ourselves also in the body. Address to the hearts of the afflicted the promise, I will be with thee in trouble; thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy days so shall thy strength be.

Let glory dwell in our land, and upon all the glory may there be a defence. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build Thou the walls of Jerusalem. Make bare thine arm in the sight of all the nations; and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, now and for evermore. Amen.

TUESDAY EVENING

O THOU who wast, and art, and art to come, the Almighty! With Thee is the fountain of life. In thy presence there is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. It is our privilege as well as our duty to draw near to Thee. It is the prerogative of

our nature, that of all creatures in this lower world, we alone are made capable of knowing, resembling, serving, and enjoying Thee. All our degradation and misery have been produced by our alienation and absence from Thee; and all our happiness and perfection depend upon our reunion and intercourse with Thee. We therefore bless Thee for the revelation Thou hast given us, and by which we learn, that thy thoughts towards us are thoughts of peace and not of evil. We rejoice in a new and living way into the holiest, by the blood of Jesus, who has once suffered for sins the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. We pray that the grand design of his sacrifice may be accomplished in each of us. May we feel that we are brought back from the dreadful distance to which sin had conveyed us, and that we are one with God again; and henceforth may the life that we live in the flesh, be a life of communion with the Father of our spirits, and of devotedness to him. May thy service be the employment of our days, and the enjoyment of our hearts. May we love thy commands and acquiesce in thy dispensations; and then we are at the gate of heaven.

We lament that this has been so little the case with us, since we have known Thee, or rather have been known of Thee. We ought to be ashamed to think, that after all the instructions of thy word, the ordinances of thy house, and the discipline of thy family, our ears are still so dull of hearing, and our hearts so slow to believe; that our souls so cleave unto the dust; that we live so much under the influence of things seen and temporal, and feel so little of the powers of a world to come. How obscure is our knowledge; how weak our faith; how low our hope; how wavering our obedience; how lifeless our worship. O Lord, clothe us with humility; and in this attire help us to present Thee the sacrifice of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, which Thou wilt not despise.

And since Thou art the God of all grace, and hast commanded us to ask and receive that our joy may be full, afford us more of the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ, to give more decision to our character, and more earnestness to our zeal; that with enlarged hearts in the way of thy commandments, we may run and not be weary, and walk and not faint. May we always realize thy presence; and may the thought that thine eye is upon us, operate as a check to sin, an excitement to duty, and a source of con solation. May we bear with firmness and submission the various trials of life and religion, and derive from them all the advantage which they are designed to afford. May we glorify the Lord in the fires, and may every day of trouble afford us an opportunity to prove the truth of thy promise, the tenderness of thy care, and the supports of thy grace. May tribulation work patience, and patience experience, and experience hope.

But how few, how limited, and how light are the afflictions with which we are exercised. How much more reason have we to be thankful than to complain. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and all that is within us, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits; who forgiveth all our iniquities; who healeth all our diseases; who redeemeth our lives from destruction ; who crowneth us with loving kindness and tender mercies.

We praise Thee for the protection, the supplies, and the comforts of another day. Take us under thy care for the night on which we have entered. May no evil befal us, nor any plague come nigh our dwelling. Refresh our bodies and renew our strength by needful repose; and when we awake, may we be still with God, and rise to love Thee more and serve Thee better than we ever have done, through our Lord and Savior, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.