PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILY.

Family worship should be observed daily in every household, when she following prayers may be used in connection with the reading of a portion of Scripture. It is recommended that the Scriptures be read as directed by the Calendar, or "Order of Scripture readings for the Family."

On Sundays, after reading the Scriptures, the Family shall rise and join in saying the Creed.

Then shall be said, all kneeling, first the Sunday Collect for the week, next the Prayer for the particular day of the week, and lastly the Lord's Prayer, in which all shall join audibly.

Sunday Morning.

O LORD, merciful and gracious Father, we, Thy children, adopted in Jesus Christ, gather around the mercy-seat with humble and childlike trust in Thee. As Thou makest the outgoings of the morning to rejoice, so do Thou make glad our hearts on this day of sacred rest. Thou, O Lord, art the true and only rest of the soul, and our hearts cannot rest until they rest in Thee. Grant us this day, not only the rest of the body, but also some foretaste of that peace and joy which shall refresh us, when we, after the labors of this life, shall awake in Thy likeness, and be numbered with Thy saints in glory everlasting.

O Thou who hast made Thy Church Thy dwellingplace, and chosen it as Thy rest forever, and hast taught us in Thy word not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together; regard in special mercy, we beseech Thee, all those who meet to-day in Thy holy courts. Manifest Thyself unto them as Thou dost not unto the world. Bless unto them and us all Thine ordinances; and may our worship in the Church on earth prepare us more fully for the blessed worship of the Church in heaven.

O adorable Saviour, Head of Thy Church, who hast all power in heaven and in earth, and who dost send forth Thy servants in Thy name, to publish salvation and make disciples to Thyself; sustain the Pastors of Thy flocks at home, and in heathen lands. Give them the anointing of the Holy Ghost in their ministrations, that they may feed the flock that waiteth around Thee; comforting the distressed; instructing the ignorant; warning the careless; confirming the doubting; suiting and satisfying the wants of all from the rich treasury of Thy grace.

Be pleased, O God of compassion, whose tender mercies are over all Thy works, to remember this day all ranks and conditions of men. Succor the needy and oppressed; protect and cheer widows and orphans; restore the sick; prepare the dying for death; sanctify the merciful chastisements of Thy hand unto all who are enduring them; and grant that their afflictions may lead them to the exercise of that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto life, and thus bring unto them, in the life to come, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, through the suffering,

death, resurrection, and powerful intercession of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Blessed Jesus, who in the days of Thy flesh didst take little children into Thine arms and bless them, and who hast taught us that the promise is to us and to our children, and didst command that the lambs of the flock should be fed; do Thou, this day, through Thy families, and through Thy Church, call the lit tle children to Thyself. Cause them to be nurtured by Thy renewing grace, that out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thy name may be glorified.

Hear our prayer, O Lord, in heaven, Thy dwelling place. Glorify Thyself in all that we do and suffer, and lead us in that way in which we shall best escape the pollutions that are in the world, and attain at last to the unspeakable joys of the life to come: and unto Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, shall be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen.

Sunday Evening.

O LORD, our heavenly Father, we acknowledge Thy great goodness toward us, in granting us another day of holy rest. We are truly sorry for the errors and sins of this day, and of our past lives. We are grieved that we have so often forgotten Thy presence, authority, and goodness. Merciful God, pardon our offences. Especially, O Lord, forgive the iniquity of our holy things. Correct and amend what is amiss in us. Write Thy laws in our hearts; and enable us

to show by holy, unblamable, and useful lives, that we have not enjoyed Thy sabbaths and Thy worship in vain. Thus prepare us ever more fully for the worship of the heavenly temple, and for the enjoyment of that eternal Sabbath which knows no setting

sun.

Grant, O Lord, that every evening may remind us of the near approach of the night of death. Let a deep sense of our frailty make us careful how we live; and amid all the vanity of this present life, may we be united by a living faith, and by the power of the eternal Spirit, unto Him who is the Resurrection and the Life; so that, though we die, we may yet live, because He lives, and so escape death and the bitter pains of eternal misery.

Assist us, we beseech Thee, in carrying out the holy resolutions which we have this day formed, under the gracious movings of Thy word and Spirit.

O Thou, who hast all power in heaven and in earth, accompany the preaching of Thy word, and the administration of Thy sacraments, with the influences of Thy Holy Spirit. Continue to us, and to all Christian churches, the means of grace and salvation; and may the saving truths of the Gospel be speedily published in every land, that all the ends of the earth may hear, believe, and live forever.

Evermore keep and preserve us, O God of our salvation, in the midst of all dangers to which we are exposed, either in body or in soul; and prepare us, with meek cheerfulness and Christian resignation, to receive our sorrows as well as our joys from Thee; knowing that health and sickness, riches and poverty,