SUNDAY EVENING.

BLESSED, O Lord, is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts. We thank thee that we have this day been permitted to enjoy this privilege. We thank thee that we have been permitted to meet with thy people, to hear thy word, to celebrate thy praises, and to make our requests known to thee in prayer.

May the services in which we have engaged leave a sanctifying impression behind them; and may we experience, during the course of the coming week, the influence of ordinances, which thou thyself hast appointed, and through which thou hast promised to meet with thy people, and to do them good. Under the trials with which we may be visited, may the consolations of the truths we have been hearing sustain and delight our souls. When pressed by temptation, may we remember the warnings of thy word, and fear to offend: when burdened by a sense of infirmity and weakness, may we remember the promises of thy grace, and be encouraged to run with patience the race that is set before us. With every opportunity of hearing thy word explained and enforced, may our acquaintance with its nature, our sense of its value, our experience of its power, and our conformity to its pure and heavenly design, become more complete. Being written upon our hearts by the power of thy

Holy Spirit, may its truths become living principles within us; and may their influence be experienced by our affections and desires, our temper, our opinions, our principles, and our conduct.

We beseech thee, gracious God, to forgive whatever thy pure eye hath this day seen amiss in our attempts to serve thee. Our own hearts condemn us. With shame and sorrow we confess a wandering mind in thy service, an unfixed attention while listening to thy word, an absence of those pure and elevated feelings which ought to characterize our devotions, a want of singleness of heart and of godly sincerity in our approaches to thy throne. We acknowledge that we are prone to lose sight of the greatness of the privilege we enjoy in being permitted to worship in thy presence, and that we are ever apt to engage in the exercise in a cold and formal spirit. We lament that in using the means of grace, we are so apt to rest in them and trust to them, to the neglect of thee and of thy blessing, which alone can render them-what in kindness thou hast designed them to be-channels for the communication of thy Holy Spirit to our souls. Mercifully overlook-and pardon what thou hast seen offensive in the state and posture of our souls this day. Let not sin interpose its shadow between our souls and thee; but graciously look upon us in the face of thine Anointed; and, while thou forgivest our sins, send thy Holy Spirit into our hearts to withdraw us from the influence of those habits and sinful inclinations, which we have this day experienced, and which we now deplore.

To the kindness of thy providence and the riches of thy grace, we commend all who have this day united with us in thy service. May thy ministering servants find that the way of the Lord is strength to the upright. Under their trials and discouragements, may they be comforted by the comfort wherewith it is their office to comfort others; and may the Gospel which they preach prove, in their own experience, as a well of living water springing up into everlasting life.

We pray for abundant success to accompany the labours of all thy servants. Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon them; establish thou the work of their hands upon them; yea, the work of their hands establish thou it. Among the young, especially, may the power of the Gospel be felt and displayed. May the places of thy servants who are called to leave the world be filled by a fresh generation of faithful, active, zealous disciples, who in their turn shall transmit to the generation following the praises of the Lord our God.

Let not thy word, in any case, return to thee void. While it teaches the young and the inexperienced how to purify their way, may it not knock in vain at the heart of the aged, and of those who have been long hardened in the ways of sin. May` they who have longest resisted its authority, and turned a deaf ear to its warning voice, be roused from their lethargy and impenitence. May no force of habit, no strength of passion, no unfavourable influence of circumstances, no length of time spent

in the service of sin, have power to hinder the triumphs of thy word among all classes and conditions of men. O let it come among its enemies with the power of the Spirit of God. Let it be felt to be the rod of thy strength which thou hast sent out of Zion-the sceptre of sovereign and invincible majesty, with which thou art to rule in the midst of thine enemies.

Thus, O Lord, carry forward thine own work: advance thine own glory: hasten thine own kingdom: extend the sphere of true religion, and the empire of the cross: and bring daily the church and the world nearer the glorious consummation of all things, when the kingdoms of this earth shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever. All that we ask is for Christ's sake. And to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be glory for ever. Amen.

MONDAY MORNING.

O THOU that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. To whom can we go but unto thee, who art the source of our life and the length of our days, who hast all fulness in thyself, and art the bountiful giver of every good and perfect gift. Convince us, we beseech thee, that they that are far from thee must be unhappy, and must finally perish; and under a lively persuasion of the value of thy favour, and the blessedness of thy service,

may we practically acknowledge that it is good for us that we draw near to God.

May we at this time be enabled to approach thee acceptably, relying on Jesus Christ, through whom alone we have access with confidence into thy presence. Iniquities, we confess, prevail against us; but we look up to thee to take them away. Hide not thy face from us, we beseech thee: put not thy servants away from thee in thine anger: thou hast been our help: leave us not, neither forsake us, O God of our salvation.

We bless thee, gracious God, that the blood of Jesus Christ, thy Son, cleanseth from all sin, and that in him thou art faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. May the blood of Jesus be applied to our consciences, and may we be justified freely by thy grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. May we no longer stand at a distance from thee as rebels and enemies; but, being reconciled by the blood of the cross, may we be brought nigh as servants and children, and be taught to joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have received the atonement. May a sense of thy goodness effectually destroy the enmity of our old nature. Convinced of the greatness of thy love, may we be sensible of the prevalence within us of new feelings towards thee. May we be deeply humbled on account of our sins, which have made a separation between thee and us; and may the language of our souls be, "what have we to do any more with