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MEDITATIONS FOR A WEEK

MONDAY-PURITY

LORD, Thou hast searched me and known

me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.

Psalm 139:1-4.

F I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will

not hear me.

HOLY

Psalm 66:18.

OLY GOD, I would present my body to Thee. May I regard it as the temple of the Holy Ghost! Help me to revere the laws of health as the very thoughts and commands of God. Amen.-J. H. Jowett.

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OW, O God, my Savior, I entreat Thee subdue mine iniquities. Only Thine Almighty arm can vanquish them. I look to Thee for victory. Fight for me; fight in me: that I may be more than conqueror, through Him that loved Amen.-Edward Bickersteth, 1786-1850.

me.

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RANT, O Lord, that as we go forth once more to our daily labor we may remember the truths that we learned, and may carry out the resolutions we made on Thy holy day. Keep us from our besetting sins, and strengthen us to do Thy holy will, that we may never forget Whose we are and Whom we serve; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.-Bishop Walsham How, 1823-1897.

GOD, most merciful Father, Thou speakest through Thine only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, saying: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you." Give us now Thy Holy Spirit, that our hearts may be strengthened for the work of this week; through Jesus Christ. Amen.-Father John of the Russian Church.

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ORD, I my vows to Thee renew;

Scatter my sins as morning dew;

Guard my first springs of thought and will,

And with Thyself my spirit fill.

Direct, control, suggest, this day,

All I design, or do, or say;

That all my powers, with all their might,

In Thy sole glory may unite.

Bishop Ken, 1637–1711.

TUESDAY-TRUTHFULNESS

WHO can understand his errors?

Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.

Psalm 19:12.

F we say that we have fellowship with Him,

IF

and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.-I John 1:6,7.