reverence and holy fear, begging of Thee mercy and peace, pardon and salvation. Thou art holy, and justly offended with us; but yet Thou art our gracious Lord and merciful Father in Christ Jesus. Be pleased, we beseech Thee, to blot out our sins from Thy remembrance, and heal our souls, that we may sin no more against Thee. Open our eyes, that we may see and amend our own infirmities and follies; and give us perfect understanding in the way of godliness, that we may walk in it all the days of our pilgrimage. Give us a spirit diligent in the works of our calling, cheerful and zealous in religion, fervent and frequent in prayer, charitable and useful in conversation. Give us a healthful and chaste body, a pure and holy soul, a sanctified and humble spirit; and preserve our body, soul, and spirit, blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be Thy name, O God of all mercies, who hast preserved us through the past night from sickness and sorrow, from sad chances and a violent death, from the malice of the Devil, and the evil effects of our own corrupt nature and infirmity. The outgoings of the morning and evening shall praise Thee, and Thy servants shall rejoice in giving Thee glory and thanks for all Thy wonderful dealings with the children of men, and with the members of Thy Church.

Let Thy providence and care watch over us this day, and all the days of our life, that we may never sin against Thee by idleness or folly, by evil company or private sins, by word or deed, by thought or desire. Enable us so to spend the day that it may be

profitable to us and to others, and leave no sorrows, or the remembrance of an evil conscience, at night; and so conduct us through life by Thy Holy Spirit, that when the days of our short abode on earth are done, and the shadow is departed, we may die in Thy fear and favor, and rest in a holy hope, and at last return to the joys of a blessed resurrection, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

An Evening Prayer.

The day is gone, and we give Thee thanks, O Lord. The evening has come; make it bright unto us. As day has its evening, so also has life; abide with us Lord, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent of this fretful life. Let Thy strength be made perfect in our weakness. We beseech of Thee for the close of our life, that Thou wouldest direct it in peace, gathering us together in the repose of Thy saints, when Thou wilt, and as Thou wilt, only without shame and sin.

As long as we live will we magnify Thee, O Lord, and lift up our hands in Thy name. Let our prayer be set forth before Thee as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as an evening sacrifice. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God, the God of our fathers, who hast created the changes of days and nights, who givest songs in the night, who hast not cut off like a weaver our life, nor from day even to night made an end of us.

Lord, as we add day to day, so do we add sin to sin. But we turn with groans from our evil ways, and we return into our heart, and with all our heart we turn to Thee, O God of penitents and Saviour of sinners. We have sinned, O Lord, against Thee; heavily against Thee. We repent; spare us, O Lord: we repent; help Thou our impenitence. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, after Thy great goodness; according to the multitude of Thy mercies, do away our offences. O bring Thou us out of our trouble. Cleanse Thou us from secret faults; keep back Thy servants also from presumptuous sins. Our wanderings of mind and idle talking, lay not to our charge. Deal not with us after our sins, neither reward us after our iniquities. Look mercifully upon our infirmities; and for the glory of Thy holy name, turn from us those ills and miseries, which for our sins, are by us most righteously deserved.

To our weariness, O Lord, vouchsafe Thou rest; to our exhaustion renew Thou strength. O Keeper of Israel, who neither slumberest nor sleepest, guard us this night from all evil; guard our souls, O Lord. Visit us with the sleep of those who rest in Thy love; reveal to us wisdom in the visions of the night; or if not, for we are not worthy, at least let sleep be to us a breathing time as from toil, so from sin. Yea, O Lord, let us not in our dreams imagine what may an. ger Thee, what may defile us. defile us. Lord, Thou knowest how sleepless are our unseen foes, and how feeble is our wretched flesh. O shelter us, we pray Thee, with the wing of Thy pity. Awake us at the fitting time;

and bring us to seek Thee early, for Thy glory, and for Thy service.

O Thou who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, remember Thy whole creation for good, visit the world in Thy compassion.

O God of grace and truth, establish all who stand in truth and grace; restore all who are sick with here. sies and sins.

O wholesome defence of Thine anointed, remember Thy Church which Thou hast purchased and redeemed of old; O grant to all believers one heart and me soul.

O Thou by whom are ordained the powers that be, grant to those who are chief in authority over us, to oe chief in virtue and Thy fear; grant to the National Congress Thy holy wisdom; and to our great men to do nothing against, but for the truth.

O Helper of the helpless, seasonable aid in affliction, remember all who are in necessity, and need Thy succor. Have mercy on them, as on us also, when in extremities. Remember, Lord, infants and children, orphans and widows, foreigners, travellers and voyagers, the sick in soul or body, all in extreme age and weakness, all in prison and chains, all in bitter servi tude, or in loneliness. Thou, Lord, preservest both man and beast; how excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God; therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings.

The Lord bless us, and keep us, and show the light of His countenance upon us, and be merciful unto us; the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, and give us peace. Amen.

THE CANTICLES,

PSALMS AND ANCIENT HYMNS,

POINTED FOR CHANTING.

1.

The Nicene Creed.

1 We believe in one God, the | Father Almighty, || Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things | visi- ble | and in-| visible:

And in one Lord | Jesus | Christ, || the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father be-|fore = | all = | worlds. 3 God of God, Light of Light, very God of | ve ry | God;|| be gotten not made; |

4. Of one substance | with the | Father, || by whom all | things

were made;

5. Who, for us men, and for our salvation came | dcwn from | heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary,

6. And was

| man: || who was also crucified for 18 | under Pontius | Pilate,

made |

7. And suffered, and was buried; and the third day | rose a- gain || according to the Scriptures: and as-❘ cended | into | heaven, 8. And sitteth at the right hand | of the | Father; || and shall come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead; of whose kingdom there | shall be no end.