days may Judah be saved, and Israel dwell safely! Let the people praise Thee, O God! let all the people praise Thee!

We renew our Covenant through Jesus the Surety; and in all our concerns with Thee, we approach through His mediation, rest on His atonement, and would be heard for His intercession! And now to the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, be the supreme glory! Amen. "The grace of our Lord," &c.

SATURDAY MORNING.

THY Lovingkindness is before our eyes! Thy Name is near! Thou art nigh at hand! We behold, we prove, the Present God! Vain Vain repetitions, and much asking, are not needed to arouse Thy ear and attention! Thou never forgettest, never art unwilling! We would not seek Thee as the heathen clamour to their Vanities! Thou canst hear a Hannah's moving lip and a Nehemiah's praying heart. Still is it

pleasant for us with voice, as well as from all that is within us, to praise Thee, and record Thy goodness,-God over all, blessed for ever! Our morning prayer and thanksgiving we will now render in cheerful and united strains.

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But Oh! since the moment of our Fall, all approach to Thee has been debarred save the one which Thou didst then open. Thou art in Christ, and art alone accessible by him. His Sacrifice taught hope to our first parents, by which hope we yet draw nigh unto Thee. was Thy forbearance, waiting for the Propitiation, which then remitted sin but at this time Thou dost declare Thy righteousness, that God might be just and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. Our eyes still rest where sinners alone could from the beginning look with confidence and joy. And Thou, who didst turn the heart of the first penitent, or it had never turned, turn Thou us and we shall be turned, for Thou art the Lord our God. Endue us with power from on high. Awaken in us each devout disposition. May we all engage our hearts to approach Thee.

Lord! This day opens upon us, and we would bethink ourselves of it as a responsible period of life. It is a time, however brief, of

serious issues.

We may do much to honour and serve Thee, to help our brethren, to advance our well-being. And in it we may do

much to dishonour Thee and to violate our religious profession. In an unguarded moment we might roll our glory in the dust! Ere another hour had elapsed, with what a retrospect and

a remorse might we be filled! Do no enemies wait for our halting? Shall we meet with no hindrances ? May there not arrive most unlooked for events? We cannot pierce it. Thou seest its end from its beginning. Thou knowest what it shall bring forth. Be Thou Lord over us! Jehovah Jireh,-do Thou provide! Jehovah Nissi,-do Thou defend ! Jehovah Shammah, do Thou be with us here and every where.

We would humble ourselves before Thee in some proportion to our depravity. Is not our wretchedness great and our iniquities infinite! Who can comprehend his errors ! Who can know the heart? We cannot view ourselves as Thine eye surveys us. Sin cannot appear to us as it must to Thee. But our heart condemns us. We abhor ourselves. The burden is too

heavy for us. What a plenteous redemption, what a great salvation, what an abundance of grace, do we stand in need of, when we sue to find favour in Thy sight!

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We pray for each domestic blessing. firm to us each domestic tie. May we pass along in the path of life together. Let the fruit of the Spirit abound in us, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Save us from that hatred of truth in any one of our number which would disre

lish social prayer, which in other times induced children to rise up against their parents and to cause them to be put to death. O let the yoke of family devotedness be felt a delight and a honour by us all.

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And yet must Death, sooner or later, break in upon this scene. The feet of strangers will sound at the door to carry us out. We know not who shall survive, and who shall fall. every one seek of Thee, O Lord, an habitual preparation. Be it our constant care to be found ready. For the first, and every following removal, let not there be the sorrow in which is no hope. May the uprooted from earth be transplanted into Paradise. May a holy example be placed before us still, set in a heavenly conversation. May the surrender of each one be as a first-fruit and hostage to the skies!

Pity our worldly acquaintance and kin. Open their eyes that they may see the light. Constrain their hearts. And may it come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Be in the midst of our Missionaries, as well as of our Pastors. May their piety be exalted and their success ever-increasing. Let it be as when the Ancient Church could exclaim: The watchman of Ephraim was with my God!

Our prayer has no merit, our praise no incense, but we offer them through the Blood and Priesthood of Him who hath the power of an Endless Life! And to the Tri-Une be ceaseless homage!

"Our Father," &c.

"The Lord bless us," &c.

SATURDAY EVENING.

HEAR our cry, O God! attend unto our prayer. In Thee do we put our trust. Thou art our strong habitation, whereunto we would continually resort! And while many would fright us and say, Flee as a bird to your mountain,we have in Thee a place of defence, stronger and more guarded than the munitions of rocks. God is our refuge and strength: a very present help in trouble.

To us belongeth shame of face. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts, and from Thy judgments. But we now set our face unto the Lord our God, to seek by prayer and supplications! And we have a Righteousness in which we may be exalted! We can boast an Atonement which