Preserve us, Lord, throughout the day,
And guide us by thine arm;
For they are safe, and only they,
Whom Thou preserv'st from harm.

Let all our words and all our ways
Declare that we are thine,
That so the light of truth and grace
Before the world may shine.

Let us ne'er turn away from Thee;
O Saviour, hold us fast,
Till with unclouded eyes we see
Thy glorious face at last.

143.

To Thee, O Lord, with dawning light
My thankful voice I'll raise,

Thy mighty power to celebrate,
Thy holy name to praise :

For Thou, in helpless hour of night,
Hast compassed my bed,

C.M.

And now, refresh'd with peaceful sleep,
Thou liftest up my head.

Grant me, O God, thy quick'ning grace,
Through this and every day;
That, guided and upheld by Thee,
My feet may never stray.

Increase my faith, increase my hope,
Increase my zeal and love;

And fix my heart's affections all
On Christ and things above.

And when, life's labour o'er, I sink
To slumber in the grave,

In death's dark vale be Thou my trust,
To succour and to save:

That so, through Him, who bled and died,
And rose again for me,

"The grave and gate of death" may prove
A passage home to Thee.

144.

My God, how endless is thy love,
Thy gifts are every evening new,
And morning mercies from above
Gently distil like early dew.

L.M.

Thou spread'st the curtains of the night,
Great Guardian of my sleeping hours;
Thy sovereign Word restores the light,
And quickens all my drowsy powers.
I yield my powers to thy command,
To Thee I consecrate my days;
Perpetual blessings from thine hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.

145.

NEW every morning is the love

Our wakening and uprising prove,

L.M.

Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

New mercies, each returning day,

Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,

New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

I

If, on our daily course,

our mind Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still, of countless price,
God will provide for sacrifice.

The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask;
Room to deny ourselves,-a road
To bring us daily nearer God.

Only, O Lord, in thy dear love
Fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

EVENING.
146.

GLORY to Thee, my God, this night;
For all the blessings of the light;
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
Beneath thine own Almighty wings!

L.M.

Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,
The ill that I this day have done;
That with the world, myself, and Thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

bed;

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my
Teach me to die, that so I may
Rise glorious at the awful day.

O let my soul on Thee repose!
And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close!
Sleep, that shall me more vigorous make
To serve my God when I awake.

THROUGH the day thy love has spared us;

Wearied, we lie down to rest:

Through the silent watches guard us;

Let no foe our peace molest:
JESUS, Thou our Guardian be;
Sweet it is to trust in Thee.

Pilgrims here on earth, and strangers,
Dwelling in the midst of foes,
Us and ours preserve from dangers,
In thy love may we repose;

And, when life's sad day is past,
Rest with Thee in heaven at last.

148.

GOD of Israel, we adore Thee!

Thou hast kept us through the day:
Thus preserved, we come before Thee,
Ours the new and living Way.
Safely keep us through the night;
Guard us till the morning light;
Nor forsake us

Till Thou take us

Far from earth to dwell with Thee,
Through a bright eternity.

149.

THROUGH the changes of the day,
Kept by thy sustaining power,
Offerings of thanks we pay,
Father! in this evening hour;
Praises to thy Name belong,
Source and Giver of our good!
And, though feeble is our song,
It shall speak our gratitude.

P.M.

P.M.

From the dangers which have frown'd,
From the snares in secret set,
We have, through thy mercy, found
Safety and deliverance yet!
And thy loving-kindness hath
All the day to us been shown,
While profusely on our path

Richest blessings have been strown.

Spirit! who hast been our Light,
And the Guardian of our way,
Let thy mercy and thy might
Keep us for another day!

O'er our sleep, with sleepless eye,
Watch, and sweet shall be our rest;
And when morning gilds the sky,
Our awaking shall be blest!

BLESSED be thy Name for ever,
Thou of life the Guard and Giver!
Thou canst guard thy creatures sleeping,
Heal the heart long broke with weeping.
God of stillness and of motion,

Of the desert and the ocean,
Of the mountain, rock, and river,
Blessed be thy Name for ever!

Thou, who slumberest not, nor sleepest,
Blest are they Thou kindly keepest !
God of evening's parting ray,

Of midnight gloom, and dawning day,
That riseth from the azure sea,
Like breathings of eternity!
God of life the Guard and Giver,
Blessed be thy Name for ever!