SCRIPTURE LESSON.

OTH a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness and wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreat. ed, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.-James iii: 11-18.

PRAYER.

IVER of all good and Father of all spirits, we thank Thee for the many privileges and blessings Thou dost vouchsafe to us. We would ever remember Thy loving kindness and tender mercy. If we accept Thy teachings, we know that we shall find fullness of joy and pleasures that will be eternal. We pray that Thy light and Thy truth may lead us to Thee, and that we may drink of the fount whose waters give true life to all who partake. Imbue our souls with Christian love. May we delight in Thy law; and, we pray Thee, incline our minds to meditate upon Thine attributes, and bring us into continual communion with Thy spirit. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

EXHORT, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings,

and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty: for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. -I. Tim. ii: 1-6. By grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.-Eph. ii: 5, 8. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.-II. Tim, i: 9.

PRAYER.

LORD our Father, source of all light and truth, who didst send Thy son Jesus Christ into the world, that the world through him might be saved: grant, we beseech Thee, that the light of his doctrine and life may shine. into our hearts, and dispel our darkness, and direct our steps, and lead us at last to the unspeakable glories and felicities of Thy heavenly kingdom. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

OR all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.-Rom. iii: 23, 24. Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.-Rom. viii: 23. The son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.-Matt. xx: 28. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.-Isa. xxxv: 10.

PRAYER.

UR God and Father, we beseech Thee mercifully to receive our prayers as we call upon Thee; and grant that we may both perceive and know what things we ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same, through Jesus Christ our Lor!. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

AKE a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.-Ps. c: 1-5. Therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.-I. Tim. 4: 10.

PRAYER.

UR Father, who hast endowed us with all our powers of body and mind, and from whom we receive every blessing suited to our wants; we devoutly thank Thee for our physical senses, for our mental and moral powers, for all the duties Thou requirest of us, and that they are designed for our good, adapted to our moral nature, and constitute our highest enjoyment. We thank Thee for all domestic joys, for our lot in a land of freedom, of good and wholesome laws, which guard our lives, our characters, and secure to us the fruits of our labor, and for Thine unspeakable gift to our whole race, in the Gospel of Thy son; a light to our feet and a lamp to our path; a full commendation of Thy paternal love to man. We thank Thee that Thou hast revealed to us, through this gift, the forgiveness of our errors and wrongs; and taught us to forgive all who harm or injure us. We thank Thee for the glorious hope of immortality brought to light by Thy son, in whose name we would pray for all good. Amen.

SCRIPTURE LESSON.

HO is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage. He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.-Micah vii: 18, 19. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.— Heb. viii: 12. He forgiveth all thine iniquities; he healeth all thy diseases.-Ps. ciii: 3. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.-Jer. xxxiii: 8. In whom we have redemption, through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.-Eph. i: 7.

PRAYER.

ATHER Almighty, who dost govern all things in heaven and in earth: let the light of Thy holy word so shine into our thoughts, that our souls may find the peace which passeth all understanding; and do Thou so move our hearts by the spirit of devotion, that our lives may continually show forth Thy praise. Amen.