Make us thankful that the lines have fallen to us in goodly places, and teach us, we beseech thee, to value and improve our privileges. We read thy word; may it be as honey to our taste, and sweeter than the honeycomb. We engage in the delightful exercises of prayer. O Lord, give us the spirit of grace and supplication. We would not be content with bodily service; we would bring our hearts to thee a willing offering. O Lord, receive the offering, and help us from day to day to feel that we are not our own, but thine, bought with the precious blood of thine incarnate Son. We would live by faith on him. While attending to the business of life, we would have our affections on things above. Great God, accomplish these our desires for thy mercy's sake, and we will speak aloud of thy goodness.

We commend to thee all who pertain to us. Make our children thine. Take our servants into thy family. Let our relations all be brought to love the truth, and may they be sanctified by its influence. Remember in mercy the land of our birth. God save the queen; give her wise and upright counsellors. Sustain the judges and magistrates of the land in the ways of righteousness. Bless our rich men with a right view of their responsibilities, and may our poor hope in thee. Let affliction be sanctified wheresoever it is endured, and may our people praise thee; O God, let all the people praise thee.

We thank thee for the mercies of this day. Watch over us to-night, and in the morning may we with renewed vigour and deep sincerity again devote ourselves to thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

LUKE XXII. 1-30.

MORNING HYMN.

"What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him."

WHO is this that calms the ocean?

Thus they cried who were on board, When they saw the wild commotion

Cease as Jesus spoke the word: When the sudden calm they saw, Wonder fill'd their minds, and awe.

He who bids the tempest riot

On the deep, and make it swell, He alone the storm can quiet, Saying to it," Peace, be still:” He whose power to all gives birth,— All in heaven, and all in earth.

He who calms the sea when raging,
Stills the tumult of the soul ;
By his word the storms assuaging;
Storms too furious for control;
But he binds them with his hand,
And they cease at his command.

Ye who, all your hopes deriving

From yourselves, have labour'd long

To allay the storm by striving,

But have found the wind too strong;

From the hopeless labour cease,
Jesus gives the troubled peace.

LUKE XXII. 31-71.

EVENING HYMN.

"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God."

FAR from us be grief and sadness,
Farther still, unhallow'd mirth;
Zion's sons may sing with gladness,
Theirs are joys of heavenly birth;
Jesus owns them,

He is Lord of heaven and earth.

All the worldling's mirth is madness,
All his labour fruitless toil;

"Tis the saint that tastes of gladness,
Though the world his choice revile :
Sweet his portion!

Life is in the Saviour's smile.

Worlds would seem as nothing to us,
Balanced with a Saviour's love:
Since the Lord in mercy drew us,
Drew our souls to things above,
Earthly objects

Can no longer greatly move.

Once the world was all our treasure;

Then the world our hearts possest;

Now we taste sublimer pleasure,

Since the Lord has made us blest:
We can witness,

Jesus gives his people rest.

MERCIFUL and everlasting God, thou art our Father. Abraham does not know us, Israel is ignorant of us, yet art thou our Father through Jesus Christ; thou hast visited us with thy favour.

O Lord, condescend to deal with us as thy adopted children, supplying our temporal wants in such manner as may seem good in thy sight. Give us neither poverty nor riches; feed us with food convenient for us. Grant to us the bread of life and the water of life, and help us to obey thy commands, to confide in thy care, and to love thee with our whole heart. We confess with shame that we have not done so heretofore. Thou hast nourished us and brought us up, but we have rebelled against thee. Do not reject us as we deserve, but remember thy mercy on which we have been caused to hope; and henceforth lead us in thy truth and teach us. Oh grant us thy salvation!

We pray for hearts right in thy sight. We ask for wisdom to direct us in all our doings. We want strength, and guidance, and help from thee, so that we may fall into no iniquity. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

And help us to cherish those dispositions, and ever to pursue that conduct, which become thy children. May the mercies thou givest incline us to devote ourselves to thee, which is our reasonable service. May the instructions we receive enlighten our understandings, and purify our hearts; may the chastenings with which thou visitest us subdue the evil which is in our

nature, and make us partakers of thine holiness. We would not murmur or complain of what thou doest with us. O Lord, by whatever means, accomplish in us the good pleasure of thy goodness, and the work of faith with power, and at length acknowledge us as thy children in that great day when thou shalt make up thy jewels; and may we be permitted, in the riches of thy mercy, to dwell in our Father's house above, to go no more out. May our dear friends also become thy children through faith in Jesus Christ; and may the gospel of thy grace go forth in every direction in our world, accompanied with the power and demonstration of the Spirit, so that multitudes, now strangers and foreigners, may be brought into the commonwealth of Israel and the household of faith.

Let all mere formalism in religion be destroyed. Let the name to live be every where accompanied with the power of a new and spiritual life. Let the people praise thee, O God. Let Jews and Gentiles form one family of redeemed sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Oh that all the ends of the earth may receive thy salvation!

As thy children, we hope in thy promise. We cast ourselves upon thy care. We ask for counsel to direct us this day, and for grace to supply all our wants according to thy riches in glory by Christ Jesus. We know not what may befall us, but thou knowest. Oh lead us in thy truth, and help us through the day to live by faith upon thine incarnate Son; to whom, with thyself, O Father, and to the Holy Ghost the Comforter, be everlasting honour ascribed by us and by the whole household of faith. Amen.