tions; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words :

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

PRAYER.

O THOU, our Heavenly Father and Almighty King, who rulest justly over all, and whose nature it is to have mercy, graciously hearken to our cry, and pardon us all our iniquities. Incline our hearts to confess and mourn the sins we have committed, and to forsake all that we confess; and those that we do thus acknowledge and put away from us, wilt thou, we beseech thee, forgive. Turn thou us, O holy Lord, and we shall be turned. Cleanse thou us, and we shall be clean. Be favorable to thy people, who look to thee in fasting and praying, and help them so to watch and fast and pray, as not to enter into temptation. Thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity. Spare thy people, and visit them not in judgment according to their offences. Pardon us all our injustices and infirmities, our irreverence and uncharitableness, our pride and selfishness, and every kind of transgression. Help us, O Lord, who hast created us fearfully and wonderfully, help us to keep under our bodies and bring them into subjection, that all their vile lusts and inordinate appetites may be mortified and subdued to the spirit.

O thou who art the Lord of lords and King of kings, we humbly beseech thee for our country, that it may be still blessed and prospered by the good God of our fathers; that

thou wouldst be pleased to preserve and extend its liberties, to purify and maintain its laws, to cause order, industry, contentment, and peace to prevail among all its inhabitants. Be pleased to direct all the consultations of our law-makers, in the nation and in the commonwealth. Rule thou in righteousness among the rulers, and judge among the judges. Deliver us from the mischiefs of sedition, party spirit, maliciousness, and rebellion. And let all things be so ordered, under thy wise and perfect government, that truth and equity, concord and happiness, virtue and religion, may be established upon sure foundations, and stand fast in our heritage for ages

to come.

Almighty and Everlasting God, we thine unworthy creatures are strangers and pilgrims on the earth, as all our fathers were. Regard very tenderly, we entreat thee, our low and feeble estate. Send us strength while we live; support us in sickness, and prepare us to die. We ask thee, if it may be thy holy will, to make the earth continue to yield her fruits in their season; to send the early and latter rain, to bless the springing thereof, and to be to the husbandman the joy of harvest. Bless every kind of honest and rightful labor, and stretch out thy wide protection over the ocean and the land. Save us from pestilence and from famine. And dispose all thy children to use thy bounties with moderation, temperance, and thankfulness.

Father of all the families of the earth, send now the blessing of thy Holy Spirit into all our homes. Fill them with the fruits of Christian love. May Christ Jesus thy Son be received and revered and trusted everywhere, as that gracious and blessed Saviour, whom to know aright is life eternal, whose blood cleanseth from all sin, and who hath brought life and immortality to light. And through him unto thee, O Father, be rendered all honor and power and praise, now and for evermore!

Most merciful and righteous Father, who hast taught us

that, if we, through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live, and who hast commanded us not to be weary nor faint in our minds striving against sin, bring us this day to a true humiliation, and deliver us from evil. Stand at our right hand, we beseech thee, and work with our hearts, that we may overcome in the time of our temptation; and being graciously absolved from all our iniquity, made clean from its corruption, loosed from its burden, may we pass our time in quietness and holy trust here on earth, and finally obtain everlasting life, through our Lord and Saviour, the only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

BENEDICTION I.

SERVICE FOR A NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY.

[When such anniversary falls on a Sunday, and not on the fifth Sunday after Whitsunday, the Psalms for that fifth Sunday may be read, by exchange with those appointed for the day when it so falls.]

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A COLLECT.

THOU whose throne is in the heavens, God of all

nations, who puttest down one and settest up another, who art the Ruler of all the armies of earth and skies, and whose kingdom is from everlasting to everlasting, as thou hast dealt with this people beyond all their deserving, and multiplied thy mercies to us notwithstanding our offences, so we humbly entreat thee still to show thy loving-kindness, by turning us from every false and evil and unjust way; to lighten our darkness, to deliver us from perplexity and peril, to unite all our hearts in a wise and faithful respect both for our liberties and our laws, to keep ever open among us the fountains of knowledge, charity, and grace, to give us peace and prosperity, and to exalt us by righteousness: and this we ask through him who, of thine infinite goodness, is made unto us righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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SERVICE FOR THE COMMUNION OF THE

LORD'S SUPPER.*

E who do truly repent you of your sins, who are in love and charity with your neighbors, who desire to express your gratitude and reverence to your Saviour, Jesus Christ, by commemorating his death in the way which he hath appointed, and who intend, by the aid of God's grace, to live a Christian life, draw near with faith, and take this holy ordinance to your comfort.

Hear the words of invitation and comfort which our Saviour speaks to all who truly turn to him:

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth give I unto you.

Hear also what his holy Apostles say:

Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

*Principally after the old Greek Liturgies, with especial use of that of Antioch, called the Liturgy of St. James, - compiled and translated for a Service-Book by Rev. F. H. Hedge, D.D.