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temper, to direct and restrain our tongues, to animate us with the purest zeal, and to fill us with charity to our neighbor. May it also sanctify our daily work, exciting our diligence in it, and teaching us to look to thee, O Lord, for our great and final recompense. O God, we pray thee to bless us to the end of our lives. Defend us in all future dangers; succor us in all sorrows, trials, and adversities; and when the toils of this mortal life are over, conduct us in safety to thine everlasting peace and rest.

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To thee, who hast been the support of our infancy, the help of our youth, and the guide of our advancing years, do commit ourselves for evTo thee do we humbly resign all our affairs, and commend our bodies and our souls, our temporal and eternal interests. And to thee do we ascribe all glory and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

FOR SUNDAY MORNING OR EVENING.

ALMIGHTY God, Father of all thy creatures, we adore thee for thy great goodness, in providing not only for our temporal necessities, but also for the spiritual wants of our souls. We thank thee for thy holy word, by which we are instructed in thy will, and are made wise unto salvation. We thank thee for thy holy Sabbaths, on which our thoughts are especially called away from earthly things, to the consideration of those things which are heavenly and eternal.

We praise thee for the gift of thy Son Jesus Christ; that he hath set us an example by his holy life; that he hath redeemed us by his painful and precious death; and that by his resurrection from the dead on the third day, he hath given us assurance of immortality.

We pray thee, O Lord, to impress deeply on our

minds these solemn truths, that we may not forget them amidst the cares and occupations of the world, but may daily be reminded of our Christian privileges and Christian duties. Save us from indifference and levity, as well as from wickedness and sin. Pardon our sins in times past; pardon our forgetfulness of thee our God, and grant us thy peace.

We pray thee to send the blessed gospel of thy Son over the world. Bless the labors of thy ministers in every place; fill them with zeal for thine honor, and with love to thy name. May Christ be preached from the rising to the setting sun; and may each of us endeavor to recommend our faith by our conduct.

We intercede for our relations, connexions, and friends; especially for those who may be in sorrow, sickness or trouble. Grant unto them those consolations which thou only canst bestow, and put into their hearts a holy trust in thee. And may

those who feel that their infirmities come upon them, and that their outward frame decays, be enabled to believe that when earthly things fail, they shall have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Take us now, O God, under thy gracious care. Let thy blessing attend us, and thy good Spirit rest upon us. May the truths which we hear with our outward ears sink into our hearts; and may we, through the ensuing week, rise up and lie down, at peace with thee, and with all mankind. When our Sabbaths and all our days on earth are numbered and finished, receive us, O God, we beseech thee, to thine eternal rest; through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

PRAYER FOR A Bereaved FAMILY.

O THOU eternal Lord our God, the Lord of life and death, who givest and

who takest away, enable us all to say, with sincere and humble resignation, Thy name be blessed, and thy will be done. In all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us, we would come to thee, O Father, and put our whole trust and confidence in thee, and lay down the burthen of our sorrows before thee, and look to thee alone for consolation and help; for we know that thou art a God of mercy and compassion, and that though clouds and darkness are round about thee, righteousness and judgment are the foundations of thy throne.

We desire to submit with all humility and patience to the recent afflictive dispensation of thy righteous providence. Be pleased to sanctify it to thy servants the members of this family. Teach us to turn this sorrow to our eternal good; and let the sense of our loss make us cleave more steadfastly to thee. Let no repining thoughts rise in our hearts,

but help us to place our affections more strongly on those immovable things which are above, and to resign unto thee all our thoughts and desires. By this chastisement may we be purified from sin, quickened in duty, mortified to the world, and raised above it. Send thy holy

Spirit to abide with and comfort our hearts, and enable us to endure tribulation as becometh disciples of thy Son Jesus Christ.

Bind more closely together the surviving members of this family. Increase in us a tender and faithful affection. May we learn how to promote each other's happiness, and mitigate the sorrows which have befallen, or yet await us. Teach us to feel the vanity of earthly things, to delight in thy word, to study thy will, to observe thy law, and to work out our own salvation; that when we go the way of all the earth, we may be comforted by thy presence, and admitted to that

heavenly state where all tears shall be wiped from our eyes, and there shall be no more decay, nor sickness, nor death; which we ask in the name of thy Son Jesus Christ, the resurrection and the life, through whom to thee be rendered everlasting praises. Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE CHIL

DREN OF A FAMILY.

ALMIGHTY God, by whose gracious providence the successive generations of mankind are called into being, we implore thy fatherly blessing on the children of this family. To thy protection and guidance, to thy direction and disposal we humbly and earnestly recommend them. May they remember their Creator in the days of their youth. Impress on their tender minds that reverence of thee which is the beginning of wisdom; and give them that understanding which shall incline them to keep thy commandments. Lead

them by thy right hand in the path of duty, and preserve them amidst the temptations to which the young are particularly exposed, and amidst all the temptations of this present evil world. As they grow in years, may they grow in grace, and by a careful improvement of the talents committed to their trust, may they lay a foundation for their present comfort and eternal felicity.

Help us, O Lord, to train them up in thy fear. May we give them seasonable instructions, and set them good examples. Direct us in every part of their education; in the choice of their studies, employments, and stations of life, whereby they may be most happy in themselves, and most useful to society. Let a kind providence accompany them through life; may have the comfort of seeing them behave wisely and well, and the hope that they will at last be received to the endless felicity of thy heavenly king

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A PRAYER FOR THE AGED. upon them, that their

GREAT God, and heavenly Father, look down with peculiar favor and kindness upon thine aged servants. Have compassion upon their infirmities, and help them in all their weaknesses, difficulties, and distresses. Cast them not away, O Lord, in their old age. Forsake them not when their strength faileth. Remember not against them former iniquities, but according to thy mercy remember them, for thy goodness'

hoary heads may be found in the way of righteousness, and their souls be precious in thy sight. O let goodness and mercy follow them the remainder of their days. Let their last days be their best days, and their last comforts their strongest and sweetest comforts. And, when heart and flesh and all their powers shall fail them, be thou, O God, the strength of their hearts, their support, and their portion for ever. Amen.

END OF FAMILY PRAYERS.

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