in the prayer of faith. Heavenly Father! we acknowledge with gratitude the daily bounties of thy providence; our temporal favours; our spiritual privileges; our private mercies, and the share we have had in public blessings. O may we shew our thankfulness in our strict compliance with all thy laws. We pray for steadfastness in our religious purposes, and deprecate that transient goodness, which is compared to the morning cloud and the early dew. Cleaving to thee and holding fast that which is good, may we endure unto the end. Increase, O God, our delight in thy law, and direct our examination of the sacred scriptures. With just solicitude may we ask for the right paths. Excite our diligence in reading, meditation and prayer. Preserve us from following a multitude to do evil; arm us against the influence of corrupt society; may our choice of companions fall upon such as fear thee and keep thy commandments; fortify us against the enticements of sinners; and prevent our entering the path of the wicked. May we be content with that portion of good things allotted us, trusting to thy fatherly care to fulfil our reasonable hopes and supply our necessary wants. We implore thine influence to beget within us a strong and practical faith in Jesus Christ.

May we meditate upon thy purposes in giving a Saviour to the world, till our hearts are warmed with true devotion. O God! we pray for more religious zeal, for more active piety, for more christian charity, and for more divine light. May the ministers of the gospel experience in themselves those renovating influences of religion which they preach to others. By them may the hungry receive the bread that came down from heaven; and the thirsty receive the pure waters of life; by them may the stranger be taken into our great Shepherd's fold; and the prisoner visited by the liberty wherewith Christ makes his people free.

O Lord! grant to each of us fidelity in our several stations; and while on earth may we work the works of thee, our God, who placed us here. May our expectations, relative to futu rity, influence every thought, aim and wish. May we consider ourselves as stewards, and remember the account we are to render of our talents. And O may it be our happy lot in the day of inquiry and sentence, to hear the approving words, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Everlasting Father, most holy and merciful! thy children look to thee for the protection of life in this world, and for its happy continuance in the next. Be with them in the hour of

peculiar trial for their deliverance, and may every day find us wiser and better.

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And now will the God of peace sanctify us wholly, and preserve us blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

SATURDAY EVENING.

O THOU, who art the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God, wilt thou hear us with favour when we pray, and grant us thine assistance and blessing. O Lord, open thou our lips, and our mouths shall show forth thy praise. Thou art the first, and thou the last, the ever living and true God. At the close of another day and another week, we are assembled in the scene of our domestic blessings to give thanks to thee and to glorify thy name. We are thy creatures, and we would come to acknowledge our entire and absolute depend

on thee; we are thy children, and we would look to our Father in heaven with reverence and love; we are cherished and supported by thy bounty, and we desire that our hearts may rise in the offering of gratitude to thee; we are frail, and ignorant, and weak, and we would pray for thy guidance, assistance, and support; we are sinners, and we would implore the mercy of the God of grace. Enable us,

O God, to come before thee with a deep and impressive faith in thy being and providence, with joy in thy wise and righteous government, with gratitude for thine unnumbered mercies, with the spirit of acquiescence in thine appoint-ments and of, submission to thine authority. By all around us and all within us we àre taught that thou art good, and that thy tender mercies are over thy works. If sometimes the portion of life is bitterness and sorrow, we bless thee for the assurance we have, that afflictions are messengers sent for wise and good purposes, and that like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. From thy bounteous hand, O God, all our blessings descend, and every day we experience thy goodness in our social enjoyments, in the health of our bodies and the

peace of our minds, in our means of improvement and happiness. Through Jesus Christ thy grace has been continually proffered to us, and the light of divine truth has been shining upon us. We would particularly remember with gratitude the mercies which we have received during the past day and the past week. In the midst of our various cares and pursuits, thou hast been pleased to protect and bless the members of this family; and notwithstanding our follies and sins, our day of grace is yet prolonged, and we are spared, while so many have gone down to darkness and dust. O God, may each heart among us be an altar to thy praise. Suffer us not to go on from day to day and from week to week, supported by thy power and blessed by thy bounty, and yet be unmindful of the hand which upholds us and makes us happy. Give us grace to be grateful, as we ought, for that best gift of thy goodness, the gift of thy Son, our blessed Saviour. Glory be to God in the highest for him, who came to seek and to save that which was lost, to proclaim peace and mercy to man, to bring back thine erring children to thee, their Father, and to introduce us to an inheritance of hopes incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away. O thou, whose mercy is not wearied by our