pressly offered this prayer, since he believes on Him through the word of the Apostles. Suppose that he were to resolve to try his best to do his own part in fulfilling this prayer, and therefore to endeavour to promote among his friends a feeling of unity and love. He would pray to God to give him strength to do so, and he would join his companions in a spirit of kindness, and anxiety to please and oblige them in all lawful things, strengthened also by the assurance that such conduct would actually spread the knowledge of Christ among those who now despise Him, since the passage tells us that the goodness of true Christians is to be to others one proof of the truth of Christ's religion. This is an example of really reading the Bible, nor can any one doubt how richly blessed such study of it would be.

SHORT PRAYERS

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OTHER HELPS TO DEVOTION.

MORNING PRAYER.

O LORD and heavenly Father, by whose great mercy I have spent this night in peace, and awake this morning refreshed and strengthened, incline my heart now to seek Thee, and teach me how to pray. Let Thy Spirit, O Lord, pour His light upon my mind. Forgive me, for Jesus Christ's sake, all the sins and evil thoughts of the past night, and of my whole former life; forgive all my ingratitude, perverseness, and hardness of heart; and may this new morning which Thou hast permitted me to see, make me feel more deeply that I

must work while it is day, since the night cometh when no man can work. Keep me throughout this day, by Thy Holy Spirit, from the sins which Thou knowest most easily to beset me; especially from forgetfulness of Thee and of my own soul, from selfishness and passion, from idleness and sloth, from evil thoughts and evil words; and enable me to fulfil my duties in this place with energy and perseverance, endeavouring always to consecrate them all to Thy glory. Be with me in my work and my enjoyments alike; and may neither estrange my heart from Thee, who art the giver of all good, and the source of all happiness.

Bless, O Lord, all my relations and friends. Bless this School, and those who are set over it. Bless especially my own chosen friends in it. May this day be spent in peace by all of us, even in the peace which Thou givest, and which passeth all understanding. And may Christ our Lord be amongst us by His Spirit to preserve us from all sin, and to keep us ever pure, and faithful, and loving. Hear

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me, O Lord, I beseech Thee, through the

same Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Amen.

EVENING PRAYER.

O Almighty God, I thank Thee that Thou hast added to my life another day, and thereby given me a fresh opportunity of turning heartily to Thee, and of devoting to Thy glory the talents which Thou hast entrusted to me. But I confess to Thee, O Father, with shame, that I have not used this opportunity as I should have done, but have sinned against Thee in thought, word, and deed. [Here confess the sins of the day.] My only hope is in Thy mercy, and in the merits of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Grant to me, for His sake, Thy Holy Spirit, to cleanse the thoughts of my heart by His holy inspiration, to assure me of Thy forgiving love, and to give me both the power and the will to love Thee in return.

And, forasmuch as Thou hast made the night for man to rest in, grant that the sleep which I now hope to enjoy may be consecrated to Thy service, by refreshing my wearied body, and enabling me to do Thy will more faithfully when I wake. Help me now also to call to mind the sleep of death, which must one day come upon me; and give me Thy grace so to follow Christ in life, that I may also pass with Him through death to His glorious resurrection. Grant that my sins may be so done away in me now by the blood of Christ, and by the power of His Spirit, that, from this my mortal body, there may hereafter rise a glorious body, fitted to dwell for ever with Thee, O Father, through Him who died to save us, Thy most dear and blessed Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

SUNDAY MORNING.

O Almighty God, who, notwithstanding all my former neglect of the means of grace