ADDITIONAL PRAYERS. TO BE USED AT THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL. I. OUR day. UR Father, we pray Thee to be with us and bless us this day.-Dangers are round us by day and by night.-Save us, O God, from all that can wound the body, or hurt the soul.-Our lives are in Thy hand, and to Thee do we look for help in every time of need. Lord, teach us to keep Thee ever in our thought, that we may fall into no evil way. -When we go out, and when we come in; when alone, and when we are with others, - may we bear in mind that Thou art with -and that Thou knowest all we think, and say, and do. us, We pray that we may be brought up in Thy love.-Grant us, O Lord, strength to serve Thee always.-Help us day by day to amend our ways, that we may grow in grace, and learn more and more may walk so as to please Thee. - how we Give us only such things as we need.— And that Thou wilt hear and answer our prayers, may we ask for the right things.We pray Thee to lead us safely through this life, and to bring us to the end of our days in peace. Forgive all our sins, thoughts, and words and deeds, Jesus Christ our Lord. II. Amen. UR Father who art in heaven: OUR our evil through Thou art the source of all our hopes,—both in this world and in that which is to come :To Thee do we owe life, and health, and all things. Thou hast cared for us in infancy:-Be Thou our guide in youth.-Watch over us in all the years to come.-Thou hast healed us when we were sick.-Thou hast raised us up when we have been brought low.-Day after day Thou hast been with us, and comforts are round us on every side. O Lord, we bless Thy name for what is past. May the thought of Thy goodness lead us to repent of all our sins.-May we walk in Thy will in the time to come.. Help us this day to shun all that is wrong. -Grant, that as we love life, and wish to see good days, we may keep our tongues from evil, and our lips from guile.-Give -- us, we pray Thee, right minds, that we - may see Thy truth.-And grant us meek hearts that we may enter into Thy kingdom. And when it shall please Thee to call us from this world, - may we give our souls with trust and hope into Thy hands.-We ask it through Christ.-Amen. III. LORD of all power and grace, who alone art holy, just and true :-We are filled with grief and shame-when we think of all our sins against Thee.-Well may we put our hands upon our mouths and our faces in the dust, for we choose the dark ways of sin, rather than the light of Thy truth. But O, our Father, we bless Thy name that Thou hast given us hope.-Thou hast said if we turn from our evil ways and repent, Thou wilt forgive the wrong we do.-We pray Thee now to take us into Thy favor, that we may dwell in that kingdom which is in every soul-that is filled with Thy truth and love. We thank Thee O God, for the gift of Thy Son. Thou didst send him into the world to make known Thy ways.-May we aim to be like him-to have his spirit-to be ready like him at all times, to do and to bear for the sake of Thy truth.-Make our hearts a fit abode for Thy blessed spirit.-Guard us from all that is wrong in Thy sight.-And make us Thine in word and deed-through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. IV. THY HY dear Son, O God, when on earth-took up little children in his arms and blessed them.-Fold us, Father, in Thine arms, and bless us also.-Fill our hearts, we pray Theo, with love, and open our lips with praise.Every good thing we have comes from Thee. -Thou art helping us by day and by night— and giving us food, and raiment and health. We bless Thee for these Thy gifts.-But more than all, we bless Thee for the great love of Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of the life to come.-0 Lord, we pray Thee to look in much mercy upon this School.-Give those who teach a deep sense of the great work they have to do. Grant them every gift they need.-May they have joy in training up the young-in the way they should go,-that when they are old, they may not depart from it. And bless these Children in their studies.— May they be quick to learn.-May they keep the lessons they are taught.-May they obey their Parents and Teachers,-and be kind to each other. And as they grow in grace,may they also grow in wisdom,-and in favor with God and man. O Lord, be with us all, Teachers and Children, at all times and in all places.Graft in our hearts the love of Thy name.— Increase in us true religion.-Build us up in Thy most holy faith, and keep us ever in the right way.-We ask it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. V. O Thee, O God, we owe life, and Thealth and all tell, no thought can sound the depths of Thy love. When we lie down, it is under the shadow of Thy wings.-When we rise up, Thy hand leads us,-and Thy right hand upholds us.-In Thee we live and move and have our being.-Make us to feel, O God, that we are never alone. Thine eye is ever fixed upon us.-Thou art with us in every good word and work.-0 let not our hearts be so hard, our minds so dark,-and our lives so false,-that we lose sight of this truth. When the tempter calls-may the thought that Thou, God, seest us,-keep us in the right way.-May we feel that to Thine eye our souls are never closed. May we live this day, as they should live,who know not what a day may bring forth.May it be thine, and each event which it brings, lead us nearer to Thee.-Give us grace for the work Thou wouldst have us do. -Save us from all sin,-and make us clean in heart, and pure in mind.-Teach us to forgive those who wrong us, as we are forgiven by Thee.-And bring us all at last-to that place of rest and peace--which Thou hast prepared for us. And if these our - |