good, so that the longer we live we may grow more and more into the likeness of the perfect man. Thou knowest our temptations, heavenly Father: help us to watch against them, and to win the victory over them, remembering that thou hast promised to those who are faithful unto death a crown of life. Pity our weakness, O Lord, for we are thy children and the work of thy hands; thou hast called us by our names; we are thine. Send down upon us, for our present need, the dew of thy heavenly grace. Bless us in the work before us now. Make us quick to learn and eager to be taught; may the good seed of thy word, planted in our hearts to-day, bring forth abundant fruit in days to come. Thou hast made our bodies the temples of thy presence; may our lives show forth thy praise. Lord, hear our prayer, and let our cry come unto thee, for the sake of thy dear Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

LORD God, we humbly beseech thee to direct our thoughts and prayers this day; purify our hearts from every evil and false imagination, and may no vain and worldly desires have their abode in us. Keep us from all wandering looks and ways, from an undevout mind, and careless prayers. Let the voice of thy love enter into our souls, that we may study thy word with reverence and holy fear, with fervour and delight. O God, thou seest us: help us to look up unto thee; for the sake of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who makest

both to will and to do those things that are good and acceptable unto thy divine majesty ; we make our humble supplications unto thee for these thy children. Let thy fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them; let thy Holy Spirit ever be with them; and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that

in the end they may obtain everlasting life; through our Lord Jesus Christ, who, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

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LESSED Lord, who hast given us a new commandment, that we should love one another as thou hast loved us, and hast taught us that where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work; Give us grace to be kindly affectioned, and to love one another with a pure heart. Put far from us all anger and evil speaking, that we may obtain the blessing of the peacemakers, and walk in love, even as thou hast loved us, through thy merits, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

MERCIFUL Father, do thou enable us day by day to increase in wisdom and holiness. May we never forget that thine eye is always upon us, and that thou art about our path, and art acquainted with all our ways. Enable us to resist the sins that we deplore, and to strive to do those things that thou wouldest have done. O God, may thy Holy Spirit never leave our hearts, but guide us continually, and lead us into all truth, for our Saviour's sake. Amen.

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GOD, who didst reveal thyself to thy Prophet Samuel while he was yet a child; Grant unto us, thy children, the knowledge of thy will, that we may ever walk in thy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

LORD Jesus Christ, who didst sit lowly in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions; Grant unto us, thy servants, both aptness to teach and willingness to learn thy blessed will; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS.

LMIGHTY God, our Father and Teacher, minds and hearts of men; Grant to us that we may be taught of thee. Teach us to be truly humble in our search for thy truth, so that our eyes may be opened to behold the wondrous things out of thy law. Give us a single-hearted purpose to make the children whom we are called to teach from thy Holy Word completely thy children in purity and good works. Teach us to await without impatience thy good time, and to trust thee wholly for the harvest, if only we may sow the seed with conscience and in love. Grant us understanding hearts to read our childrens' characters and needs, and to lead them with wisdom and gentleness into the paths of righteousness and peace. Strengthen our own souls with a holy strength to resist the evil and to show forth in our lives the good, and so fill us with a love of the truth and enlighten our minds with the light of the everlasting gospel, that we may be worthy fellow-workers with thy dear Son in the upbuilding of his kingdom. We ask all in his name. Amen.

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OST merciful God, who art the fountain of all grace, grant, we beseech thee, to the teachers in this school thy gifts of wisdom, gentleness, and patience. May they find their work a joy, and count all labor light that is undertaken out of love towards thee. Guard them from the temptation to a careless and half-hearted service. May a consciousness of the solemn responsibility which is theirs be always present with them. Bless their every word to the good of the pupils committed to their care; and may thy Holy Spirit so enforce the teaching given by them that, at the last, the reward which thou hast promised those who turn many to righteousness may be theirs. All which we ask through Jesus

LORD, who by thy holy Apostle hast taught us to do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, and to thy glory, give thy blessing, we pray thee, to this our daily work, that we may do it with faith and heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men. All our powers of body and mind are thine and we would fain devote them to thy service. Sanctify them and the work in which they are engaged; let us not be slothful, but fervent in spirit and do thou, O Lord, so bless our efforts that they may bring forth in us the fruits of true wisdom. Strengthen the faculties of our minds and dispose us to exert them for thy glory and for the furtherance of thy kingdom, and save us from all pride and vanity and reliance upon our own powers or wisdom. Teach us to seek after truth and enable us to gain it; but grant that we may ever speak the truth in love-that while we know earthly things, we may know thee and be known by thee, through and in thy Son Jesus Christ Give us this day thy Holy Spirit, that we may be thine in body and spirit in all our work and in all our refreshments, through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord.

Amen.

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GOD, whose word lighteneth the eyes of the blind; Vouchsafe us, we beseech thee, the light of thy truth; that fashioning our lives with all meekness to the obedience of heavenly wisdom, we may by humility in things temporal attain to the glory of the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

the drops that water the earth; Grant all who contend for the faith once delivered, never to injure it by clamor or impatience; but speaking thy precious truth in love, so to present it that it may be loved, and that men may see in it thy goodness and thy beauty, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

LORD Jesus Christ, who didst send from the Father the Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth; Grant that he may enlighten our minds with the teaching of thy truth, and sanctify our hearts with the power of thy grace, so that evermore abiding in thee we may be found steadfast in faith and holy in life, being conformed unto thine image, who art with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

GOD, the light and life of all believers; grant that they whom the Holy Ghost hath made thy children by adoption and grace, loving thee without lukewarmness, and confessing thy faith without dissension, may obtain that peace which our Lord Jesus Christ promised to all those who truly follow him; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

FOR BIBLE CLASSES.

GOD, who hast given us thy Word to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path; Grant unto us to hear that Word and believe it, and to follow thee patiently in humble faith, till we see thee as thou art; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

LORD Jesus Christ, who art the truth incarnate and the teacher of the faithful; Let thy spirit overshadow us in reading thy word, and conform our thoughts to thy Revelation, that learning of thee with honest hearts, we may be rooted and built up in thee, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.