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I PRAY not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. JOHN Xvii. 15.

ABIDE in meo'ershadow by thy love

Each half-formed purpose and dark thought of sin,
Quench, ere it rise, each selfish, low desire,

And keep my soul as thine, calm and divine.

As some rare perfume in a vase of clay
Pervades it with a fragrance not its own,
So, when thou dwellest in a mortal soul,

All heaven's own sweetness seems around it thrown.
H. B. STOWE.

CHRIST, who art the Way, the Truth, and the Life, enlighten our souls, and purify our consciences, that we may ever have thee for our guardian and protector, and be guided by thee all our life long. Amen.

CONSIDER the

lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

yet

MATT. vi. 28, 29.

How lovely are the common things of God,
Such as the flowers which lie around our path
Speaking to us of love and not of wrath,
His staff and not his rod !

A. E. H.

MOST gracious God, we yield thee unfeigned thanks and praise, for all thy mercies in crowning the year with thy goodness, and in all the beauties with which thou dost gladden our eyes and delight our hearts. Add unto them all spiritual blessings, we beseech thee, for Christ's sake. Amen.

HE that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself JOHN xiv. 21.

to him.

So near, so very near to God,
I cannot nearer be,

For in the person of his Son

I am as near as he.

So dear, so very dear to God,

I cannot dearer be;

The love wherewith he loves his Son.
That love he gives to me.

WE offer and present to thee, O Lord, ourselves, our

souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee, humbly beseeching thee that we may be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction and made one body with Christ, that he may dwell in us and we in him; for his blessed Name's sake. Amen.

THOU shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

PSALM lxxiii. 24.

As God leads me, so my heart
In faith shall rest,

No grief nor fear my soul shall part

From his dear breast.

In sweet belief I know

Which way my life doth go-
Since God permitteth so
That must be best.

L. GEDICKE.

LET the prayers of thy suppliants, O Lord, come up to the ears of thy mercy; and that we may obtain what we ask, make us ever to ask what pleases thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

PUT ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.

ROM. xiii. 14.

O WONDROUS Lord! my soul would be
Still more and more conformed to thee;
Would lose the pride, the taint of sin,
That burns these fevered veins within,
And learn of thee, the lowly one,
And like thee, all my journey run,
Above the world and all its mirth,
Yet weeping still with weeping earth.

ARTHUR CLEaveland Coxe.

GRACIOUS Saviour, give us grace that we may always imitate thy humility, resignation, purity, patience, charity, and all virtues, that we may be well-pleasing to thee, and may become daily more like thee. Amen.

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