SCRIPTURE LESSON.

E not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Confess your faults one to another. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Fear God, and keep his commandments. He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the Lord. To obey is better than sacrifice. Keep thy tongue from evil. Learn to do well. Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.Sundry Scriptures.

PRAYER.

ATHER in heaven, we mourn that Thou hast been so little in our thoughts. We grieve that we honor Thee so little in our lives. It is in vain that we say we thank Thee, since our lives, which speak so much louder than our words, show that we do not thank Thee as we ought. Let us not confess our sins with our lips, while we cleave to them with our hearts. Thou art the Way, the Truth and the Life. Be Thou ever with us to make clean our hands, to make pure our lips, to guard our thoughts, and to make right all our ways. We ask it through Jesus Christ our

Lord. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

APPY is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: which made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is: which keepeth truth forever: which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners: the Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous: the Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.-Ps. cxlvi: 5-10. The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.-Acts ii: 39.

PRAYER.

BLESSED and eternal Father, help us to do our duty. Kindle in our souls a flame of sacred love, which no infirmity within, or impediment without, can ever extinguish. May we always ask first what is Thy will, and may it be our meat and our drink to do that will. O Lord, enlighten our hearts, and abundantly refresh them with the strength of perfect faith, and the sweetness of perfect charity. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

For

AM the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.-John x: 11, 14, 16. the son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.-Luke xix: 10. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God.-I. Cor. iv: 5.

PRAYER.

RACIOUS and merciful Father, our defender and preserver: endue us with Thy grace, that we may not be too careful for worldly things, but may make it our chief study and care to keep Thy holy law; and that we may labor for the necessities of this world, like the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, without being anxious for the morrow. In the spirit of Thy dear son, we would cast all our care upon Thee, who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

VERY man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.-Deut. xvi: 17. The poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.-Deut. xv: 11. Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.-Eccl. xi: 1. The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. Isa. xxxii: 8. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.-Luke vi: 38.

PRAYER.

E bless Thee, our heavenly Father, for the light of Thy word. May we in such wise hear, read and learn it, that we may be saved from the sin that is in the world. And may we find, and ever hold fast, the hope of the life to come. May all who have the gospel of Thy dear son, live in its light and walk in its truth.

Unite us in the

Pardon all Save us from

bonds of love.

our sins. Guard us by night and by day. all that can do us harm. Build us up in Thy faith. In this faith would we live and die, and in its joy would we go to dwell with Thee in heaven, and to Thee, the only wise and unchangeably good, be glory now and evermore.

Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

HEREFORE, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.—James i: 19-26.

PRAYER.

LMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for all Thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men. We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And we beseech Thee, give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we may show forth Thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving ourselves to Thy service, and by walking before Thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.