We have attended the public service of Thy Church; Thou knowest, O Lord, and our own consciences each know also, whether while we worshipped Thee in form, we worshipped Thee in spirit and in truth. Thou knowest, and our own consciences know also, whether we are or are likely to be any the better for what we have heard with our outward ears today.

Forgive us, Lord, for this great sin of despising the means of grace which Thou hast given us. Forgive us for all our carelessness, inattention, and hardness of heart; forgive us for having been far from Thee in mind, when our lips and outward expression seemed near to Thee.

Lord, will it be so forever? Shall we ever hear and not heed? And when our life is drawing near to its end, as this day is now, shall we then feel that we have lived without Thee in the world, and that we are dying unforgiven? Gracious Father, be pleased to touch our hearts in time with trouble, with sorrow, with sickness, with disappointment, with anything that may hinder them from being hard to the end, and leading us to eternal ruin.

Thou knowest our particular temptations here. Help us with Thy Holy Spirit to

struggle against them. Save us from being ashamed of Thee and of our duty. Save us from the base and degrading fear of one another. Save us from idleness and thoughtlessness. Save us from the sin of falsehood and lying. Save us from unkindness and selfishness, caring only for ourselves, and not for Thee and for our neighbors.

Thou who knowest all our weaknesses, save us from ourselves, and our own evil hearts. Renew us with Thy Spirit to walk as becomes those whom Thou hast redeemed, through Thy Son Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.-Thomas Arnold, 1795-1839.

VI

FOR OUR SPECIAL NEEDS

GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our

fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.

O Lord, arise, help us,

and deliver us for Thine

honor.

"The Litany."

RELEASE FOR CAPTIVES

LORD, we acknowledge our failures and defects; we humbly confess our errors and our sins; but forasmuch as Thou delightest to show mercy, we beseech Thee to pardon . us, to deliver us from the burden of transgression, and to release us from the power of sin; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.-"Gelasian Sacramentary," 494.

7HEREINSOVER we have erred and strayed from Thy ways, whereinsoever we have come short, or done that which we ought not