May we yield ourselves to Thee.

Let us feel

that this subjection is our best and only liberty. How large, and how even, the place of such service! We would desire no higher lot, no superior good, no sweeter joy, than to know and feel that our bodies and our spirits are Thine; than with Thy servants on earth and in heaven for ever to serve Thee!

Bless us, O Lord! this day in our different spheres and occupations. Draw us not away

with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity. As for us, may we walk in our integrity. Keep it in our mind, that evil communications corrupt good manners. Let us not presumptuously and wantonly approach the limits of temptation. Let not the World spot us! Let not the Wicked One touch us! Let a wide interval stretch between us and all evil. Let not our feet, though held, have well nigh slipped. Let us not be ready to halt, though pursuing. Let not enemies hope for our fall, nor friends stand in doubt of us. Lowly but firm, may we walk in the Valley of Decision.

We cannot but remember those who are bound to us by ties which Thou dost originate and approve. May they be added to the Lord, then shall they be ours. We conceal not from ourselves that they are all adjudged by Scripture to be, children or aliens, within or without, of

the world or not of it, for Christ or against Him, possessed of the good part or found of the contrary part. Let us not for a moment think of their state as neutral, nor deal with it as such. O confirm and sanctify the natural bond between us. May all we be brethren, because Christ is our One Master! May we be members in particular of the Body, because the Head of the Body is Christ! Be it our aim and prayer to walk orderly, in all things to live honestly, to reveal the influence of true piety over our whole spirit and deportment! May domestic religion be uniform, and give light to all our house!

Is not the harvest of the world ripe? Son of Man! Enthroned upon the white cloud,— wearing the golden crown upon Thy head,wielding the sharp sickle in Thy hand! The Voice from the Temple calls Thee, caught and prolonged by the prayer of Thy waiting Church: Thrust in Thy sickle and reap!

Let us read, with serious deliberation, the sentence of death that is in us. Let us remember that we are always indebted to it. May it be to us an expected end. Nor let us shrink nor sorrow. Is it not the victory which Thou givest to us? Is it not rather the day, than the night, which cometh?

Shut is Thine ear against the sinner who counts the Blood of the Covenant as an unholy

His

thing. Thine eye is averted from his case. prayer is sin. Thou knowest him afar off. This Atonement is all our hope! Not our faith, not our pleading, but the Atonement only! And now asking all, and presenting all, in the Name of Him Who offered it,-Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all! Now, therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious Name! Amen.

"Our Father," &c.

"The Lord bless us," &c.

SATURDAY EVENING.

The eyes

THOU God! Who only art good! Who dost exercise loving-kindness in the earth! of all wait upon Thee, and Thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. Thou dost warrant us to reason, in respect of irrational creatures, that in point of Thine endowment of us, we are much better than they. Thou dost further justify us in concluding, and command us to expect, that if Thou feedest and clothest them, much more wilt

Thou feed and clothe us.

We stand out as the

objects of Thy special regard!

Thou hast given dost magnify us,

us power over them! Thou and set Thine heart upon us. Thou dost visit us every morning, and try us every moment. And we would bear witness of Thy care. Had we been the exclusive favourites of mercy and pity, we could not have shared them more largely. Whatever the gaze of Thine Eye, never has it been withdrawn from us; whatever the employment of Thine Hand, never has it wearied in doing us good. Thou performest the thing that is appointed for us, and many such things are with Thee! Because Thou hast been our help, therefore in the shadow of Thy wings will we rejoice! Because Thy lovingkindness is better than life, our lips shall praise Thee!

By Jesus, Who suffered without the gate that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, we would offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. We glory in His Cross. There rest we the salvation of our souls. We confess the merit of the Atonement to be as necessary for our present access to Thee, as at the first when we sought for mercy, or as in any intermediate time. Nothing but the Righteousness of Christ,-performed, endured, offered, pleaded, by Him,-lies between us, and the heat

of Thine indignation! But in Him Thou art well pleased! Him Thou hearest always!

Assist us by Thy Spirit! Oh what discoveries can He make of Christ to the mind! How tender the emotions He can awaken! Show us, by Thy fellowship, Thou Blessed Comforter! our need of a Saviour, enlightening the eyes of our understanding in the knowledge of Him. Bring us to His feet, constraining us to acknowledge Him as our Lord and our God. By Him do Thou teach us to receive the Atonement. Do Thou expel the old leaven. Cast out the old man. Heal the troubled conscience. Convert the inmost soul. May we fear to grieve Thee! And if ever our thoughts of Thee can be irreverent, let us stand in awe, dreading any approach to that blasphemy which is alone inexpiable of all iniquity, transgression, and sin. Through Thy power may we abound in hope! May our joy be in Thee! Thou Who in Thine Office, as well as Person, art Holy,-fill, by Thine indwelling in us, all our capacities with Thy holiness. Abide in us for ever!

It is a good thing to show forth Thy Faithfulness, O our Benefactor! every night. But this evening deserves a more excellent sacrifice. We close in it another week. Its morrow is the Christian rest. We escape from the oppression