HOME PRAYERS.
 
 HOME PRAYERS, 
 
 TWO SERVICES 
 
 PUBLIC WORSHIP. 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES MARTIN EAU. 
 
 SrconD edition. 
 
 When ye pray, say, Our Father. LUKE xi. 2. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 
 
 AND NEW YORK: 15, EAST 16 STREET 
 1892.
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER, 
 70 TO 76, LONG ACRE. W.C.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 As this small volume is the last which I 
 shall offer to my contemporaries, so is it the 
 first of which I cannot render any distinct 
 account. In all previous cases I have had 
 something to say which it seemed needful 
 to throw into the courses of current thought ; 
 and I could indicate the place into which it 
 might naturally flow. For the following 
 pages I can offer no such plea. They add 
 nothing to the common stock of human 
 experience. They pour forth only the story 
 of every inward life, and breathe the old 
 familiar tones of wonder, sorrow and aspi- 
 ration. They do but utter some little part 
 of what every one may lay bare for himself 
 before Him that seeth in secret. What ex- 
 cuse then can there be for any attempt, on 
 another's part, to say it for him ? So deeply 
 
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 have I always felt the force of this question, 
 as hitherto to shrink from sending * Prayers 
 to the press; both as a vicarious inter- 
 meddling with the free devotion of souls 
 unknown, and as a gratuitous exposure of 
 a sacred confidence between the personal 
 conscience and the Searcher of hearts. 
 Thus regarded, published Prayers seemed at 
 variance with the injunction, " Thou, when 
 thou prayest, enter into thine inner cham- 
 ber, and having shut the door, pray to thy 
 Father who is in secret." 
 
 I own, however, to some gradual soften- 
 ing of this scruple. Perhaps it may be the 
 declining strength of life which induces a 
 natural sympathy with the varieties of men- 
 tal dependence that cannot even confess 
 their helplessness without interpreter ; the 
 child's scanty conscience and unready mood ; 
 the wandering thoughts of the untrained 
 mind ; the slow compunctions of the self- 
 satisfied ; the dry affections of the too 
 prosperous. At all events I am more aware 
 than I was of the need of fellowship in the
 
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 spiritual life, and less disposed to trust to its 
 pure spontaneity ; and therefore deem it no 
 longer a breach of true reserve, but rather a 
 requital for many a blessed incentive from 
 souls and books that have uplifted me, if, 
 standing on the last verge of this scene of 
 things, I treat it as my Confessional, and 
 bear witness to others, ere I go, how its 
 vicissitudes and possibilities have looked to 
 me and have borrowed their true significance 
 from the eternal light of God beyond the 
 veil. If even a few persons who fancy them- 
 selves alone shall find here an echo of their 
 heart-tones or genuine words for what 
 falters upon their lips, their scattered feel- 
 ing after the true notes may swell into a 
 chorus, and out of faint beginnings rise into 
 a glow of faith. So easily lost are the 
 tender voices of the spirit, that we need to 
 overhear each other. 
 
 The ' Home Prayers ' which form the 
 chief part of this volume are thrown into 
 the shape suitable for a plurality of persons 
 assembled to use them. But, with slight
 
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 exception, they are equally available for in- 
 dividual devotion, by the simplest modifica- 
 tion of grammatical form. So far as it is 
 possible for one person to speak for many, 
 the needs of each are the needs of all : so 
 that there is no ground for any substantive 
 difference between the manuals of personal 
 and those of collective devotion. The spe- 
 cialties of individual trial and temptation, 
 despondency and joy, are of infinite variety, 
 and can only be met by the spontaneous 
 piety stirred in each by the discipline of life. 
 The pathetic cries which are thus wrung 
 from the heart of almost every lot supple- 
 ment and intensify in meaning the universal 
 language of self-surrender, and quicken it 
 with penetrating power. 
 
 The two 'Public Services' which close 
 the volume are reproduced, with some slight 
 modification, from the " Common Prayer for 
 Christian Worship," published in 1862. It 
 was suggested to me that they would be 
 acceptable in Country Houses so placed as 
 to be beyond reach of congenial Church
 
 Worship ; and might, in such cases, facilitate 
 the gathering together of neighbours ready 
 for religious sympathy as well as social 
 kindliness. If in ever so few instances they 
 should thus check the growing neglect of 
 Public Worship or the dissentient attend- 
 ance upon it, I shall be grateful to the 
 friends who have asked for this Appendix to 
 my volume. 
 
 I have, in conclusion, to tender my thanks 
 to my friends the Kev. Kussell Lant Car- 
 penter, B.A., for permission to use the 
 Prayer on p. 86, which had been con- 
 tributed to his sister Mary's " Morning and 
 Evening Meditations," 4th Edition, 1857; 
 and Miss Frances Power Cobbe, for similar 
 permission in regard to the Prayer on 
 p. 89, which had its first place in her 
 "Alone to the Alone," 1871. 
 
 LONDON, November 13, 1891.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 HOME PEAYEES. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MORNING . 1 
 
 EVENING . 32 
 
 PENITENTIAL PRAYER .... 42 
 
 MORNING OR EVENING . . * . . 45 
 
 PENITENTIAL ... 92 
 
 FIRST ASSEMBLING AFTER DEATH OF A HEAD 
 
 OF THE FAMILY 95 
 
 PUBLIC WOESHIP. 
 
 PRAYER ON THE OPENING OF A NEW PLACE OF 
 
 WORSHIP . . . . . . .98 
 
 FIRST COMPLETE SERVICE 108 
 
 SECOND 121 
 
 COLLECTS FOR MORNING AND EVENING . . 138
 
 MORNING, 
 
 COURCE of all good! Day by day are 
 thy blessings renewed to us : and how 
 should our thanksgivings cease ? Our 
 fathers rejoiced to sing thy praise ; and 
 from their children's offering thou wilt not 
 turn away. The rest of night, the light of 
 day we gratefully receive as thy gifts, and 
 would dedicate to the service of thy will. 
 that we too could be re-born like the 
 morning, and our love rise as fresh as the 
 dawn, and our obedience be as sure as the 
 path of the sun ! For, as we commune with 
 thee, many shadows from the past dim the 
 joy of thy presence. When we remember 
 our thoughtless lives, our impatient tempers, 
 our selfish aims, we know that thou hast 
 left us without excuse. Thou hast neither 
 made us blind, like the creatures that have 
 no sin ; nor left us without holy guidance ;
 
 thy still small voice speaking in our inmost 
 conscience; and thine open word having 
 dwelt among us, full of grace and truth, 
 appealing to us to choose the better part. 
 We are not our own, and are ashamed to 
 have lived unto ourselves. Thou hast 
 formed us for thy service; and we must 
 hide our face, that we have shrunk from 
 the glorious hardness of our task. Our 
 daily work has not been wrought as in thy 
 sight. The trials of our patience we have 
 received as earthly pains of nature, not as 
 the heavenly discipline of faith; and the 
 fulness of thy bounties has come to us as 
 dead comfort, not as the living touch of thy 
 love. true and only God ! we have lived 
 in a bondage to the world which bringeth no 
 content ; and the passions we serve are as 
 strange idols that cannot deliver. Awake, 
 Arm of the Lord! and burst our bonds 
 asunder : and take us to serve thee in new- 
 ness of spirit. May we dread above all the 
 poisoned sweetness of sin, and choose rather 
 the bitterest draughts of healthful duty.
 
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 The cup which our Father hath given us, 
 shall we not drink it ? 
 
 Thou discerner of thoughts ! May we 
 not fall into the snares of a self-deceiving 
 mind. When our holy resolves spring up, 
 may they not wither away because there 
 is no deepness of earth : but, Thou Lord 
 of the harvest, enrich the furrows of our 
 nature, and hide thy good seed from the 
 cares of this world, and nourish it with the 
 dews of thy pure grace. Humbled by our 
 past infirmities, may we lean no more on 
 our own strength, unsanctified by the 
 memory of thee. May a constant sense 
 of thy presence give us a composed and 
 reverent soul, open our lips with thoughtful 
 and quiet words, fill us with great and 
 gentle thoughts, and sweep away with a 
 holy breath every dust of care, every trace of 
 fear, and every taint of an uncharitable 
 mind. 
 
 God of future years ! our age is nothing 
 unto thee. We are here this morning : ere 
 eventide, we may be gone and sunk into the 
 
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 shadows. Our life is as a dream, when one 
 awaketh. May we be as those that lie in 
 wait for the dawning : and when we awake, 
 may we still be with thee. For time and 
 for eternity we commit ourselves to thee, 
 Lord. Amen.
 
 MOENINGk 
 
 A GOD of Infinite Holiness, whose we are, 
 and whose perfect will we desire to 
 serve ! Be with us now, not with thine 
 outward presence only, but with thy search- 
 ing and cleansing Spirit, while we dedicate 
 ourselves anew to the work which thou 
 layest on our conscience and our heart. 
 What are we, Lord, that thou shouldst 
 call us to be witnesses of thy righteousness, 
 and open to us a place in the train of the 
 faithful and saintly who labour and live for 
 thee in every age ? Unless thou keep 
 watch over us, and cast us down with thy 
 rebuke, and lift us by thy purifying grace, 
 we can think nothing, love nothing, know 
 nothing, as we ought ; and thy Divine light 
 will but be quenched as it passes through 
 our souls. Scatter, God, the darkness of 
 sense and self within us. Ever looking
 
 unto thee, may we more and more gain the 
 single eye, the trusting mind, the fervent 
 spirit, and the heart of willing sacrifice. 
 
 Eternal Father, the stay of all our gene- 
 rations, in whose hands our times are ! We 
 bless thee for the many sweet and solemn 
 memories that surround us in our time and 
 place, and win us to love the simplicity of 
 wisdom and the beauty of holiness. Awaken 
 us to feel how great a thing it is to live at 
 the end of so many ages, heirs to the 
 thoughts of the wise, the labours of the 
 good, the prayers of the devout. Gather 
 and kindle their power in our hearts ; and 
 as we muse upon them, may their fire burn 
 and consume whatever is mean and low 
 within us. Make us one with those who 
 have been touched with pity for the sins 
 and sorrows of the world, and willing, by 
 the free offering of ourselves, to fill up the 
 measure of the sufferings of Christ. 
 
 And now, Lord, what wait we for ? Only 
 for thy blessing to attend our common life 
 of duty here. Make it all an earnest search
 
 for a nearer walk with thee. We know not 
 what a day may bring forth: fill us with 
 steadfast diligence to turn each moment to 
 account ; with vigilance against every temp- 
 tation to indolent, careless, or disordered 
 ways; with unswerving love of whatever 
 things are pure and true : and then may we 
 be without care, as those whose refuge is in 
 thee. Thus make us true followers of him 
 whose meat it was to do thy will and finish 
 thy work. Amen.
 
 MOKNING. 
 
 A GOD, Allseeing but Unseen ! Thou only 
 source of peace and holiness ! into thy 
 secret place take us for a moment, and fill 
 us with thy pure and solemn light. We 
 would not go without thy blessing on our 
 way, or mingle with the haste of life with- 
 out thy clear directing Spirit in our hearts. 
 We are weak, Lord, and renounce the vain 
 trust in ourselves alone : we are blind, and 
 know not what the hours may bring. But 
 we rest in thee, who never leavest or for- 
 sakest us : and whatever we are called to do 
 or suffer, we would put our hand in thine, 
 and freely go where thou mayst lead. 
 
 Searcher of hearts ! Thou knowest us 
 better than we know ourselves, and seest the 
 sins which our sinfulness hides from us. 
 Yet even our own conscience beareth wit- 
 ness against us, that we often slumber on
 
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 our appointed watch ; that we are drawn 
 aside by sense and self from the straight and 
 narrow way ; that we walk not always lovingly 
 with each other and humbly with thee ; that 
 we fear what is not terrible and wish what is 
 not holy in thy sight; and withhold that 
 entire sacrifice of ourselves to thy perfect 
 will, without which we are not crucified with 
 Christ or sharers in his redemption. look 
 upon our contrition and lift up our weakness, 
 Father of exhaustless mercies ! and let the 
 day-spring yet arise within our hearts and 
 bring us healing, strength and joy. 
 
 Lord of our life and Disposer of our lot ! 
 Thou hast set us in a world glorious with 
 blessed hopes, but sad with many sins and 
 sorrows. touch us with thine own com- 
 passion, and render us organs of thy saving' 
 power, to make it ready for thy kingdom 
 and nearer to thy pure and righteous 
 thought. Inspire us with the divine faith, 
 subdue us to the lowly patience, of those 
 who have lived as fellow-workers with thee : 
 and whether thou call us to rejoice in spirit,
 
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 or to be sorrowful even unto death, may we 
 still abide in thee, and remain without ela- 
 tion and without despair. Eemembering that 
 the time is short, and looking to eternal 
 things, may we have one only care, to abate 
 the transitory ill and be faithful to the ever- 
 lasting good. Day by day may we grow in 
 faith, in self-denial, in charity, in heavenly- 
 mindedness ; in the purity by which we may 
 see thee ; and the surrender which makes 
 us one with thee. And then, mingle us at 
 last with the mighty host of thy redeemed 
 for evermore. Amen.
 
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 MOENING. 
 
 ALMIGHTY Father! what are we, that 
 we should stretch forth our hands to 
 thee, and aspire to meet thee, spirit to 
 Spirit? We are less than the least of all 
 thy mercies. We have nothing to bring 
 but thine own gifts, which we have not 
 duly sanctified; and from the shadows of 
 our minds we can but vainly feel after 
 thy light inaccessible. Yet, gracious Lord, 
 though we cannot rise to thee, thy tender 
 mercy bends to us, and draws us with cords 
 of love to own thy secret presence as the 
 soul of every blessing, the solemn look of 
 every duty, the healing anguish of our con- 
 trition, and the life of all that is not dead 
 within us. Our help is only from thee : 
 may we keep near to thy refuge, as the 
 shade at our right hand. 
 
 Preserve us blameless, Lord, in our
 
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 goings out and comings in this day. Be- 
 holding in our hearts the image of thy 
 perfection, may we be pure with a heavenly 
 purity, faithful in our tasks, watchful against 
 temptation, of tender conscience, of patient 
 spirit, of generous temper, and of reverent 
 humility as ever in thy sight. Fill us with 
 the simplicity of a divine purpose, that we 
 may be inwardly at one with thy holy will, 
 and lifted above vain wishes of our own. 
 Help us to keep clean our hearts from unholy 
 thoughts, our lips from rash words, our 
 senses from unworthy indulgence, and our 
 whole life from whatever grieves thy Spirit. 
 Set free from every detaining desire or re- 
 luctance, may we heartily surrender all our 
 powers to the work which thou hast given 
 us to do ; rejoicing in any toil, and fainting 
 under no hardness that may befall us as good 
 soldiers of Jesus Christ ; and counting it as 
 our crown of blessing if we may join the 
 company of thy faithful who have kept thy 
 name and witnessed to thy kingdom in every 
 age. Touch our eyes, Lord, with clear-
 
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 ness, and place the world before them truly ; 
 that we may see through its illusions to its 
 sorrows and its sins, and never trust our- 
 selves to it without the shield of faith and 
 the sword of the Spirit, and the unwearied 
 courage of hope and love. Prepare us to 
 seek our rest, not in outward ease, but in 
 inward devotedness : only fulfil unto us the 
 word of the Chief of saints ; leave us his 
 peace, while we remain here ; and then re- 
 ceive us unto thyself, to mingle with the 
 mighty company of our forerunners. Amen.
 
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 MOKNINGk 
 
 /^OD of the light, without, within, who 
 hast lifted the curtain of night from 
 our abodes ! perfect now thy blessing unto 
 us, and take the veil from all our hearts, 
 and make clear unto us the face of thy holy 
 presence. Hide not thyself behind our sin- 
 ful darkness, gracious Lord! We would 
 not go to do our works alone. Kise with 
 thy morning upon our souls : mingle with 
 the light around us throughout the day ; 
 and may we see only as thou showest, and 
 be warmed only with thy glow. 
 
 But how, Lord, shall we abide with 
 thee ? What are we, that thou shouldst 
 lay on us the solemn trust of life, and set 
 us a little lower than the angels, and open 
 to us a living communion with thee ? We 
 cannot hide even from ourselves our deep 
 unworthiness ; and but for thy tender
 
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 mercy the joy of faith would die within us. 
 For a moment we sigh for thee, but for long 
 days our hearts are cold and dead. For 
 once that the yoke of thy perfect will is our 
 delight, times without number the burden 
 seems too great for our weary affections, and 
 we serve no more. We own all our in- 
 firmities and unfaithfulness before thee, 
 Thou All-merciful. We have nothing to 
 plead, save thine own long-suffering. We 
 must renounce the vain trust in ourselves : 
 but only the more, Thou Strength of the 
 feeble, will we put our trust in thee. 
 take us out of our own power, by win- 
 ning our hearts for what thou lovest best, 
 and drawing them into the likeness of thy 
 faithful servants, who have given themselves 
 up to do and to bear all thy perfect will. 
 Redeemed from care by the spirit of sacri- 
 fice, may we expect nothing for ourselves, 
 and find our rest in the surrender of all to 
 thee. Our daily work, in solitude or with 
 each other, may we dedicate to thee, who 
 alone art the beginning and the end of what-
 
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 ever is pure and true and holy. And amid 
 the confused voices of the world's sins and 
 sadnesses, may we inwardly hear the whis- 
 pers of righteousness and hope, and keep 
 clear the vision of thy kingdom. So deepen 
 every better faith within us, that we may be 
 ready to pour some baptism of healing on 
 the doubt and shame and sorrows of other 
 hearts; and may we neither faint nor fail 
 under any grievous cross which thou mayst 
 lay on us. Keep us thine, Father, in life, 
 in death, and for evermore. Amen.
 
 IT 
 
 MOKNING. 
 
 A GAIN, Lord of life, we welcome thy 
 holy light, and accept the trust of 
 another day from thee. Thou art the ever- 
 returning dawn to all our darkness : and 
 there is no night, of forgetfulness or sorrow, 
 that turns not back to thee. Sun of our 
 souls, whom we too faintly see ! let thy 
 glory break through the clouds of our lower 
 rninds, and kindle the fires of pure affection 
 that make us one with thee. 
 
 Why art thou ever hid from us, Father 
 everlasting! Thou art everywhere and 
 fillest all things, our conscience with thy 
 witness, the hearts of the faithful with thy 
 Spirit, life with thy Providence, and heaven 
 with thy redemption. Yet how seldom do 
 we walk with thee, and move beneath thy 
 searching eye, and feel for the guidance of 
 thy hand! We are ashamed of our sinful 
 
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 blindness, that we discern thee not, and go 
 to think our thoughts and do our works 
 alone. In thy forgiveness be pleased, 
 Thou Long-suffering, to take the film away, 
 and let in the new life of thy comforting 
 presence. Until we rest in thee, and freely 
 yield our will to thine, there is in us 
 nothing strong and nothing holy ; and we 
 do but weary ourselves with chasing the 
 shadows of selfish desire. Wean us, God, 
 from every secret wish, from every vain 
 expectation, which we dare not spread 
 before thee for thy congenial blessing. 
 And by asking nothing for ourselves and 
 entirely trusting thee, may our yoke become 
 easy and our burden light. 
 
 Father of spirits ! we bless thee for every 
 gracious and holy soul that hath led us 
 nearer to thee, and especially for him who 
 to us hath chiefly been the way, the truth, 
 and the life. We bless thee that, in every 
 darker passage of our pilgrimage, in the 
 strife of temptation, in the hour of danger, 
 in solitude of spirit, in the weakness of
 
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 anguish, and the paths of death, we may 
 fix our eye on him as the leader of faithful 
 souls, who hath divinely borne our woes and 
 passed to thy glorious rest. Give us wis- 
 dom to walk as he walked ; and by keeping 
 ever close to thee may we too have strength 
 to overcome the world. May no pleading of 
 indolence or fear, no levity or vainglory, no 
 coldness of faith and love, withhold us from 
 strenuously doing thy will and finishing 
 thy work. 
 
 Thou who art love and dwellest in love ! 
 teach us herein to be followers of thee, as 
 dear children. Never may we shut our 
 hearts against the sorrows of even the un- 
 thankful and the evil. Make us organs of 
 thy tender mercy, to soothe the wretched, 
 to lift the penitent, to seek and to save the 
 lost ; till all shall at length know themselves 
 thy children, and be one with each other 
 and with thee. Amen. 
 
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 MOENDTG. 
 
 OD of our life ! Thy loving-kindness is 
 new every morning and thy faithfulness 
 keepeth watch every night. Thou comest to 
 us in every freshness of the light ; and even 
 in the darkness it is thy shade that covers 
 us. Our hearts, Lord, would rise to meet 
 thee, when thou wakenest us to the service 
 of thy will; and sink in trust before thee, 
 when thou leavest us only the shelter of 
 thy rest. Did we remember Thee, Thou 
 All-patient, as thou rememberest us, our 
 whole life would be as a prayer to thee, and 
 our soul a living sacrifice. multiply unto 
 us the moments when thou art not lost to 
 our clouded sight, but deeply owned as a 
 fear to our sin, the hope of our aspiring, 
 the stay of our sorrows, and the essence of 
 every holy joy. 
 
 Thou Omniscient ! look with pity on
 
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 our poverty and emptiness before thee. We 
 know nothing, love nothing, do nothing as 
 we ought. Drawn away from the simplicity 
 of the childlike mind, we wander in mazes 
 where thy truth is not, and turn the face of 
 our pride from the pure shining of thy light. 
 Burdened with the cares of a self-enclosed 
 heart, we often do our work in shameful 
 bonds, and with no free surrender to the 
 calls of gentle affection, and the whispers of 
 thy gracious Spirit. And whenever we go 
 to do our tasks alone, with eye-service and 
 not as unto thee, we grow weary before the 
 time, and no spirit of holy alacrity sustains 
 us. Merciful Father! we spread our 
 failures and nothingness before thee. In 
 thine infinite plenitude of grace is all that 
 we need : whatever we can desire is eternally 
 present in thee. deepen the sacred thirst 
 within us, to lead us to thy fountain of life ; 
 and make good the blessed word, "He that 
 asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh shall 
 find, and to him that knocketh it shall be 
 opened."
 
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 Thou whose infinite majesty looketh on 
 us from the heavens and the earth, but whose 
 grace and truth shine in the face of Jesus 
 Christ! more and more soften thy great 
 glory to us through the pure and tender 
 light of his spirit; and enable us to trust 
 thee with his trust, to love thee with his 
 love, to be baptized for life with the baptism 
 that he was baptized with, and drink in death 
 the cup that he drank of. As thou didst 
 dwell in him and bring thy consecration to 
 our humanity, vouchsafe, Lord, to abide 
 with us, and stay with us till eventide ; that 
 we may do all our works as in thy sight, 
 and sweeten our temper with thy constant 
 spirit, and quiet our sorrows with thine 
 inward peace. In the turmoil of the world 
 and the failure of lower hopes, may we re- 
 member our real life which is hid with thee ; 
 and where our treasure is, there may our 
 heart be also. Keep us by thy mercy in 
 fitness for our change; healing our sins, 
 helping our weakness, sustaining our mortal 
 nature, till we are called to thy higher 
 service. Amen.
 
 MORNING. 
 
 A GOD, Thou art our God ! early will we 
 seek thee. Our soul thirsteth for thee, 
 Thou Well of life, that springest up eternally ! 
 Apart from thee, wandering by our own de- 
 sires, we never quit the dry and thirsty land, 
 or find the secret refreshment of loving and 
 submissive hearts. Only when we lay open 
 all our weakness in thy solemn presence, 
 and own our inmost sin to thy long-suffering, 
 and renounce our vain reliances for the lead- 
 ings of thy tender hand, do the clouds of 
 delusion begin to break, and we see from 
 afar the rest that remaineth for thy people. 
 Never, Thou Spirit of grace ! let our sin 
 and heedlessness gather thick upon us : but, 
 day by day, may the way be more clear and 
 the eye more pure for thy blessed light to 
 come. 
 
 Thou all-seeing ! we lie before thee in
 
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 the shadow of a thousand sins, and are 
 ashamed to speak to thee with our unholy 
 voice. Only on one thing pur heart is fixed, 
 is bent, that we will trust thee : living 
 or dying, blind or seeing, cast down or lifted 
 up, in the night of weeping or the dawn of 
 joy, we rest upon thy faithfulness and sink 
 deep into thy love. Though we unworthily 
 forget thee, thou never forsakest us, but 
 visitest us with thine awful witnesses of 
 inward dearth and sorrow, till we turn our 
 face to thee and seek our home once more ; 
 and thou meetest us on the way and wel- 
 comest thy lost that are found again. But 
 ! let nothing even seem to separate us 
 from thine affection. Draw us to the meek- 
 ness and gentleness of Christ. Reduce us 
 to the childlike mind that is ready for his 
 kingdom and feels for the blessing of his 
 hand. Strip from us the sophistries of self- 
 seeking, of vain custom, of earthly pride and 
 fear ; and set free our minds for the rever- 
 ence of all grace and truth, our hearts for 
 the love of whatever things are pure and
 
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 good, and our wills for faithful accord with 
 Thine. 
 
 Thou to whom time and eternity are 
 one ! where our treasure is, there let our 
 hearts be also. Set our affections on things 
 above, where our real life is hid with thee. 
 Filled with the everlasting light, may we 
 look on each other, and on our work below, 
 and on the strife and sorrows of humanity, 
 with a love and hope that are not of this 
 world. In waiting for the blessed end, may 
 we compose our hearts to a sweet and patient 
 temper, befitting those who are redeemed 
 from self-care by the love of God. Enlarge 
 our souls with a divine charity, that, reviled, 
 we may not revile again ; that we may hope 
 all things, believe all things, endure all 
 things ; and become messengers of thy 
 healing mercy to the grievances and infir- 
 mities of men. In all things attune our 
 hearts to the holiness and harmony of thy 
 kingdom. And hasten the time when that 
 kingdom shall come, and thy will be done 
 on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
 
 MORNING. 
 
 E voice shalt thou hear in the morning, 
 Lord ! in the morning will we direct 
 our prayer unto thee and will look up. 
 Not the deepest shade of our ignorance and 
 sin shall withhold our eyes from watching, 
 till thy dawn arise upon our souls. We 
 faint, Lord, and find no rest, while thou 
 art hid; and all the strength of our un- 
 guided steps is weariness and vanity. 
 Never, Thou Infinite, can our thought 
 avail to reach thee : but thy love is not 
 slow to seek us, and to lead us as a little 
 child that knoweth not how to go out or to 
 come in. that we may be found of thee, 
 and in all things take thy hand with a 
 loving fear! 
 
 Thou Holiest, whose Spirit bloweth 
 where it listeth ! heedless as we are, pass us 
 not by in our unfaithfulness, but speak to
 
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 us in thy still voice ; and as we cover our 
 head and hear, may we hush our idle words, 
 and lay low our guilty pride, and drop every 
 burden of our hearts, that we may be open 
 to thy renewing grace and moulded by thy 
 consecrating will. Amid the outer turmoil 
 of the world thou reservest for us an 
 inner silence of the spirit, where thou wilt 
 ever meet us and give us peace. May the 
 labour of our hands never stop the prayer of 
 our hearts. Cease not to call us to thy 
 secret place : there send the sprinkling of 
 thy dews upon our dry affections ; and 
 breathe thou abroad to loose every band of 
 our contracted souls. 
 
 Source of everlasting grace, who hast 
 not left us without thy holy image in our 
 humanity ! fill us with the mind that was 
 also in Christ Jesus, who thirsted only to do 
 thy will and finish thy work, and declined 
 no cup of sorrow from thy hand. Fix our 
 eye upon the shadow of the cross which he 
 has left upon every human path, and make 
 us one with him in patience, in pureness,
 
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 in love, in trust, in divine forgiveness, in 
 entire self-sacrifice. Dying with him to 
 earthly thraldom and mortal fears, may we 
 rise with him to heavenly life and set our 
 affections on things above. Touch us, 
 whilst here, with quickening sympathies, 
 joining us to thy saints and servants of every 
 age ; and mingle us, at length, with a more 
 joyful communion, where sin and death shall 
 be no more. 
 
 Hear us, Lord ! and let our prayer 
 come before thee as incense, and the lifting 
 up of our hands as the morning sacrifice. 
 And send us thine answer of peace, uniting 
 us in bonds of love with one another and 
 with thee. Amen.
 
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 MOENING. 
 
 A GOD, our Everliving Eefuge ! Thou art 
 our shade by night, our light by day ; 
 and when we awake, we are still with thee. 
 With grateful hearts we lay at thy feet the 
 folded hours when thou knowest us but we 
 know not thee ; and with joy receive from 
 thy hand once more our open task and 
 conscious communion with thy life and 
 thought. For a moment we pause upon the 
 threshold of a new day, and listen for thy 
 voice: for we would not enter, Lord, with 
 unprepared soul, and cannot take a step 
 without thy blessing. 
 
 Fount of wisdom ! Light of lights ! 
 who knowest every instant more than we 
 could learn in everlasting years ! may every 
 opening of truth be to us as a glimpse of 
 thee. Yet let not our deep ignorance be as 
 the hiding of thy face, but only as a call to
 
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 trust thee, that thou wilt lead the blind by 
 a way that they know not. Whatever else 
 thou mayest withhold from us, give us 
 purity of heart to see thee, and to trace 
 thy word within our spirits, and follow 
 thy footsteps though they lose us in the 
 mighty deep. As disciples of One who 
 was thy grace and truth in our humanity, 
 and who in his hour of darkness was but 
 closer and dearer to thee, may we abide 
 humbly and reverently with thee ; and, in 
 all we think and do and suffer, desire 
 nothing but faithfulness to thy service and 
 nearness to thy love. Bind us to one 
 another, Thou Holiest, by a common 
 search for thy ways and thirsting for thy 
 Spirit ; and raise us to some worthiness of 
 the communion we seek with thy prophets 
 and saints of every age. Day by day liken 
 us more to the spirits of the departed wise 
 arid good ; and fit us in our generation to 
 carry on their work below till we are ready 
 for more perfect union with them above. 
 What are we, Lord, that thou shouldst
 
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 make us sharers in thy everlasting work, and 
 give us entrance into thy everlasting rest ? 
 It is shameful to think how we have defaced 
 thine image, grieved thy Spirit, quitted 
 thy presence and strayed by ourselves. 
 When we lose thy hand, we are without 
 strength or stay, and sink into the fretful 
 cares and miserable pride of an unloving 
 mind. call back thy wanderers, gracious 
 Shepherd of our souls, and take us to thy 
 fold again. And if ever we are tempted to 
 forget thee; if our hearts are lifted up in 
 vain security and we know not what spirit 
 we are of, come with thy rebukes, Lord, 
 and lay them low, till they turn and seek 
 a childlike rest in thee. And if ever we 
 faint under any appointed cross and say 
 " It is too hard to bear," may we look to the 
 steps of the Man of sorrows toiling on to 
 Calvary, and pass freely into thy hand, and 
 become one with him and thee. Let no 
 delusion more come between us and thee. 
 Dedicate us to the joyful service of thy 
 will ; and own us as thy children in time 
 and in eternity. Amen.
 
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 EVENING. 
 
 pTEKNAL GOD, for whom no dawn arises 
 and no evening sets, who hast no weary 
 days, no passive hours ! again at night-fall 
 we bless thee for giving the rest thou never 
 needest. Thy everlasting work is ever fresh 
 and holy as thine inmost thought : yet hast 
 thou pity on us, whose burden weighs down 
 our mortal strength, and cries out for the 
 wing of immortal power. The failures of 
 this day we lay with sorrow at thy feet. 
 Yet not with faint hearts, not with binding 
 fears, but with a childlike trust, do we cast 
 our weakness on thy strength for a better 
 morrow, and look for thee to lift up thy 
 countenance upon us and show us light. 
 Thou that bringest deliverance to the cap- 
 tives and songs in the night ! scatter our 
 faithless cares to the winds. Humble our 
 self-will beneath the cross. Speak to our
 
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 conscience with no veil between, till we are 
 wholly at one with thee. 
 
 Source of all perfection ! though we are 
 as nothing before thee, except for thy 
 tender mercy, thou art all in all to us, 
 the dawn to our darkness, the fountain to our 
 thirst, the voice of hope to our sorrows, and 
 the answer of peace to our contrite prayers. 
 Wanderers as we have been, we can bring 
 thee no innocent or untempted hearts, 
 but must still lift up only a penitential cry. 
 But now is it the purpose of our souls to 
 remember thee, and, having chosen the good 
 part which shall not be taken from us, to 
 refer simply to thee all that we think or 
 speak or do. If indeed thou forgivest much 
 to souls that have loved much, thou takest 
 our disquietudes away, and callest us to rest 
 in thee. For thee we long, to thee we 
 cleave, as the secret centre of all good, the 
 hidden sanctity of every blessing and every 
 grief. Touched by thy Spirit, we walk the 
 daily path of life as upon holy ground. No 
 more will our hearts be troubled when that
 
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 Spirit, the only Comforter, shall abide 
 with us for ever, to be our guide to truth, 
 our source of love, our light of conscience ; 
 to wean us from every object of unworthy 
 or excessive desire, from every repining 
 thought, and the fond fancies of mistrustful 
 care. Clear, Lord, our inward vision, 
 that we may see through the false shows 
 of life, and be kept quiet and true by thy 
 great realities. Waken us all from the 
 dreams of the earthly mind in its forget- 
 fulness of thee. Keveal to the young, 
 thou Supreme Inspirer, what it is to live 
 this great life of opportunity ; and fill them 
 with the pure and undefiled religion which 
 will keep them unspotted from the world. 
 And in the hearts of elders let not the fires 
 die or their work linger, till they are over- 
 taken by the fading light and lengthening 
 shadows of their set time. Knowing nothing 
 of the morrow, may we rejoice to be faithful 
 to-day; gladly accepting the humblest task 
 that waits for us by thy will, and shines 
 with the holy light of thine approval. 
 Amen.
 
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 EVENING. 
 
 PUAEDIAN of our life! look on us in 
 thy compassion, as we bend before 
 thee for thy blessing. Often as we miss 
 thee in the glare and press of day, the 
 shades of evening draw us to seek thee, 
 if peradventure thy countenance may shine 
 upon us in the dark. Not that any search 
 of ours can compass thy perfection : if we 
 stretch our poor wisdom to such heaven of 
 heavens, we are lost alike by noon or night. 
 But unto the meek that only trust thee, 
 thy beauty of holiness ariseth of itself, and 
 from thy presence the cloud removes away. 
 Set our hearts low enough before thee for 
 the opening of thy will; and join us with 
 the contrite whose spirit thou delightest to 
 revive. 
 
 Lord ! as we summon the hours of this 
 day to spread their contents before thee, we 
 
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 are conscious how little thine eye can see 
 of any pure order there. The changeful 
 mind that is not stayed upon thee; the 
 vow broken because we trusted in ourselves 
 alone ; the selfish desires that shut every 
 window of heaven within us ; the anxious 
 cares with which thou hast never burdened 
 us ; the temper troubled by flying shadows 
 and lifted into no heavenly calm ; all our 
 eagerness of life and fear of death ; make for 
 us the shameful confession that our souls are 
 not at one with thee. Lord ! hadst thou 
 forgotten us as we have forgotten thee, we 
 had long ago been as the withered leaf or as 
 the stream of the brook that passe th away. 
 But thou art faithful even to the faithless ; 
 and it is thine oldest counsel that thy 
 mercies shall be ever new. We renounce 
 our pride before thee, and lament our 
 bondage to that which we have no right 
 to serve. Bring again our captivity, 
 Thou great Deliverer ! Turn us unto thee, 
 Lord, and we shall be turned. Renew 
 our hearts with thy pure grace.
 
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 Father in heaven, who hast chosen for 
 thy temple the spirits of all faithful men, 
 and wilt be worshipped only in spirit and 
 in truth! henceforth may we do all our 
 work, not seeking our own will, but the 
 Will of Him that sent us. And, lest we 
 too much please ourselves, may we choose 
 some task of faith and love for thy sake 
 alone ; and let our patient constancy be the 
 pledge of thy comforting presence. What is 
 weak in us, strengthen by thy grace ; gather 
 what is scattered; what is bruised, heal. 
 The help and mercy which we need, may 
 we also be ready to give; having patience 
 with the infirmities of the fro ward, pity for 
 the sorrows of the afflicted, a free hand for 
 the wants of the friendless, and a hopeful 
 charity for all men. Whenever we faint and 
 fail, remind us of the faithful that have 
 served thee in every age and found in thee 
 their Everlasting Eest. And be thyself also 
 our strong Salvation : for unless thou renew 
 our strength as the eagle, the wing of our 
 wearied soul doth not avail to reach thee.
 
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 From hour to hour, from trial to trial, let us 
 but abide simply in thee : and then, though 
 we know not the issue of a day, we will ask 
 no question of the morrow. Only train us 
 for the higher mansions of thy house, where 
 the burden of our days shall be laid down, 
 and the tears of sorrow be wiped away. 
 Amen.
 
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 EVENING. 
 
 pLEAE in thy sight, Soul-searching God, 
 V we now place ourselves at the close of 
 another day, that we may render our account 
 of it to thee : nay rather, that we may learn 
 to see its hours as they lie before thee, who 
 knowest us better than we know ourselves. 
 We do but come to thee at a few set times, 
 going forth on the wings of the morning 
 to meet thy blessing, and returning to thy 
 shelter within the shades of night. But thou 
 abidest ever with us, as a silence behind the 
 voices of the world, the truth within its 
 illusions, and the shame secreted in its sins. 
 Thou tracest our pilgrimage, and no step on 
 its way is hid from thee. that thou 
 wouldst purify our vision, that we may know 
 even as we are known ! 
 
 Gi-od, Thou infinite and solemn Presence ! 
 if we have not had thee in all our thoughts,
 
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 it is that we are not pure enough in heart to 
 see thee. We have pleased ourselves instead 
 of serving thee : we have lived in this world 
 without remembering that it is thine. We 
 have fled with coward spirit from the earnest 
 battle of life, and made a shameful peace with 
 our temptations. We have believed rather 
 the flatteries of selfish desire, than the stern 
 voice of duty and the inspiration of pure 
 affection, till truth and goodness float as the 
 unsteady mist before our doubting eye. How 
 often do we delude ourselves with vain shows 
 of good, and spend our passions on the thing 
 that is not ! We are like the thirsty who 
 dreameth, and behold, he drinketh ; but he 
 awaketh, and. behold, he is faint. Thou 
 whose patience we have too long tried ! after 
 so many ineffectual vows, we almost fear to 
 repent, lest we only add one unfaithfulness 
 more, and tumour last strength into weakness. 
 But, Thou Eternal ! while thou livest, 
 the waters of healing cannot cease to flow ; 
 and, feeble as we are, some gracious hand of 
 thy holy ones shall take us to the spring.
 
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 that thou wouldst increase our faith ! that 
 we may no longer lean on our broken will, 
 but throw ourselves freely open unto thee, 
 and simply watch thy guiding light, and 
 follow where thou mayst lead. Till we serve 
 thy will with a surrendered heart, we know 
 that thou canst not refresh our weary life, 
 and give us beauty for ashes and the garment 
 of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Accept- 
 ing the meekness of Christ, may we find each 
 holy truth grow clear, each sacred burden 
 light, and the shadow of guilt dissolve away. 
 Lifted above the mean ambitions of this 
 world, may we live the life of him who, when 
 he was reviled, reviled not again, and dwelt 
 among us as one that served. While we look 
 to be partakers of thine eternity, may we 
 waste no moment of our time, but fill it with 
 the order of a pure mind, a ready love, and an 
 unsparing alacrity. And thus, when the hour 
 strikes for our departure, may we be found 
 worthy to join that higher communion of 
 saints, where sorrowful mysteries are not 
 felt, and the faithful are tried no more. 
 Amen.
 
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 EVENING. 
 
 PENITENTIAL PRAYER. 
 
 A THOU Everlasting God, who fillest im- 
 mensity! may we indeed lift our eyes 
 unto thee ? and wilt thou take account of 
 our low thoughts and trivial cares, which 
 must enter our evening confession ? How 
 far must thy tender mercy exceed the awe of 
 thy majesty, that we can stand before thee 
 and live ! With but a breath of thy power 
 we are driven to and fro, as a broken leaf 
 before the wind. In the twinkling of an eye 
 thou canst melt the earth into nothing and 
 roll up the heavens as a scroll. Yet do we 
 dwell with thee in perfect peace, and go out 
 and in, as under the secret shadow of the 
 Almighty. 
 
 Lord, if still we seek thee with a heart 
 of hope and yield ourselves to thee, it is that 
 thou ever dealest with us as Sons, though
 
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 we have not loved and served thee as a 
 Father. Our headstrong wills have not been 
 restrained by thy constant eye, or recalled 
 by thy secret voice to a right and quiet mind. 
 Our tempers have not been gentle and easily 
 entreated, as beconaeth the children of a for- 
 giving God. Straying from the light of love 
 and duty, our foolish hearts have been 
 darkened, till we know not what spirit we 
 are of. Ah, Lord ! our slumbering s souls 
 bear witness how we have forgotten thee. 
 If thou hadst been there, our conscience had 
 not died. And even now, may this sleep not 
 be unto death : but visit us. with the light 
 of thine arising, that we may awake and see 
 thy glory.. 
 
 God of grace, whose compassions fail not ! 
 Thou wilt look unto the : most distant 
 wanderer whose face turneth back to thee: 
 Though we are still a great way off, thou 
 seest that we would arise and go to our 
 Father; and thou wilt welcome thy lost 
 children found again. Henceforth may we 
 serve thee with a willing mind, being never
 
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 slothful in our task and always fervent in 
 our spirit. If we cannot lift our hands in 
 innocency, may we attain the wisdom of them 
 that see their ignorance, the lowliness of 
 them that sorrow for their pride, the victory 
 of them that surrender all to thee. In our 
 daily course, meet us on the way with warn- 
 ings of duty, and memories of thy provi- 
 dence, and if needs be, with wrestlings in the 
 night, lest we become estranged from thee. 
 Dispose us, as comrades on the thorny path, 
 to bear one another's burdens; and fill us 
 with that charity which suffereth long and is 
 kind. Sweeten the bitter fountains of our 
 hearts with a branch of that tree of life whose 
 leaves are for the healing of the nations ; and 
 may drafts of pure affection refresh us on the 
 desert way. Thou that passest by and we 
 see thee not! we put our trust in thee. 
 Humble us in the pride of strength ; uphold 
 us in the hour of weakness. Make us resolute 
 and true in our days of toil: and in the 
 pauses of rest and sorrow let thy holy angels 
 pitch their tents around us and keep with us 
 the midnight watch. Amen.
 
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 MOENING OE EVENING. 
 
 CTEKNAL GOD, to whose shelter we ever 
 fly ! When our thoughts go forth to 
 seek thee, they are lost in such infinitude. 
 Yet, though thy ways are unsearchable, we 
 cannot and would not depart from before 
 thee, but would rest and lie still on thee, to 
 go whithersoever thou wilt till thou callest 
 us home. 
 
 Father of spirits ! our cry to thee is only 
 for mercy and for help. Teach us to re- 
 member our sins with so effectual a sadness 
 that thou, Lord, mayst remember them no 
 more. Mortify within us all vanity and self- 
 will. If our hearts are heated with fires of 
 passion and self-indulgence, oh! cool them 
 with the dews of a heavenly purity. If they 
 are encrusted with worldly desires and shut 
 up in thick cares, be pleased to break us 
 with sorrow and set us free. Teach us, by
 
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 thy ways of gentleness or of severity, that 
 we are not our own, but thine ; appointed, 
 not to do our own foolish pleasure, but to 
 watch thy directing looks and follow the 
 orders of thine eye. Subdue us, good Lord, 
 to the humility of Christ. For the hard- 
 ness of pride give us the strength of meek- 
 ness. Dispose us, in the spirit of a loving 
 child, to take thy hand, though thou leadest 
 us by paths that are dark and strange. 
 May we hold all thy gifts as in trust from 
 thee. Never, by the custom of thy mer- 
 cies, let us take occasion for complaint and 
 reluctance when they are withdrawn. Though 
 thou only lendest us that which we may 
 love, we bless thee that the love itself thou 
 givest us for ever. And whenever thou 
 rendest our comforts from us, oh ! refresh 
 us with the memories of a grateful heart 
 and the hopes of a holy faith. 
 
 Disposer of life, who appointest unto all 
 their tasks, and measurest out their days of 
 service ! behold, our time is short and our 
 work is great : give us the soul of industry
 
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 and a heavenly spirit of alacrity, that when 
 the shadows of evening close, we may be 
 able to say " It is finished." As thou workest 
 hitherto, with sleepless mercy, for us, so 
 may we work with thee ; and morning and 
 evening find us ready for thy perfect will. 
 May our souls be as one that fulfilleth the 
 night-watches ; awake with a constant awe, 
 and strong with a divine courage; com- 
 muning with thee in our silent walks of 
 duty, and looking for the light of thy 
 everlasting morning. 
 
 Lord, hear ! Lord, forgive ! Save us 
 from our faithless hearts: fortify us to do 
 and to bear thy whole will. When thy 
 storm cometh, shelter us in the clefts of the 
 rock; and lead us forth again under thy 
 peaceful heaven, with souls unharmed. 
 Make us thine through Jesus Christ, 
 Lord, for ever. Amen.
 
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 OE EVENING. 
 
 rTEENAL SPIEIT of our spirits ! God of 
 our wonder and our love ! Where art 
 Thou, that we may lay our cares to rest in 
 thine infinitude ? Thou passest by and we 
 see thee not : yet we turn our eyes to thee 
 more than they that watch for the morning. 
 Thou keepest silence always : yet hast thou 
 opened our ears for thy voice, as of them that 
 listen to the wind. We cannot find thee : 
 yet we cannot leave thee. Our noblest life 
 is rooted and grounded in thee, and we 
 cannot tear ourselves away. If we forget 
 thee, we are as the reed without water, that 
 drieth up and wither eth to nought. And yet, 
 Lord, we have forgotten thee : and there- 
 fore our nature is poor, our faith is faint, 
 and our hearts are parched up with cares. 
 Still, suffer us not to perish, as cumberers of 
 the ground ; but, Thou Well of life ! flow
 
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 by and give us hope that, at the scent of the 
 living water, our branch may bud and our 
 fruit be multiplied. 
 
 Thou who art and art to be ! there are 
 no seasons unto thee. But unto us thou 
 hast appointed a set time upon the earth, 
 and the shadow on our dial lengthens out. 
 Our moments of faithful duty follow us from 
 the past and do not perish : our wasted 
 hours we cannot gather up and they are 
 clean gone for ever. Hasten us, even with 
 thy chastisements, Thou great Task- 
 master, and say unto us, " Fulfil ye your 
 works ere the sun goeth down." Eemind us 
 of thy servant Jesus, who in fewest days 
 finished thy divinest work ; and fill us with 
 his spirit of holy alacrity. In the loneliness 
 of temptation, may we be steadfast through 
 all the faintness of our soul, and stand in 
 awe and sin not. In the open world, may we 
 take no rest till we have wrought the perfect 
 will of him that sent us. In the retreat of 
 anguish, may we still say, " The cup which 
 my Father hath given me, shall I not drink 
 
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 it ? " and rise up to bear our cross with 
 patience. Amid the vain shows of the world 
 and the battle of a godly life may we never 
 be bewildered or dismayed ; remembering 
 that the souls of the righteous are in thy 
 hands, and there shall no evil touch them. 
 
 God, Thou watch of our nights and 
 witness of our days ! may thy constant pre- 
 sence compose and harmonize our spirits, 
 melting away our fretful cares, consuming 
 our selfish desires, and filling us only with 
 pure and true affections. Soon, Lord, we 
 shall be spent and gathered unto thee : in 
 the awfulness of so great a lot, let all dis- 
 quiet cease and the voices of contention be 
 hushed. 
 
 Wondrous and eternal God ! our life is 
 but a spark that flieth upward in the night. 
 In a moment it is gone, unless thou take 
 us with the righteous to be the lustres of 
 thy firmament, and set us among stars for 
 ever and ever. For time and for eternity 
 we commit ourselves to thee, Thou God 
 of the living in all worlds. Amen.
 
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 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 A THOU who alone art good ! Sole Foun- 
 tain of life and truth, in whom there 
 is no darkness at all ! Thou art a God of 
 awful presence, and besettest our path be- 
 hind and before. We know that thou 
 seest us, when we are most blind to thee. 
 Thou piercing light! Thou all-searching 
 Eye ! Thou hast entered our inmost souls, 
 that there may be no escape from thee. 
 Now and here, Lord, we would cast every 
 self-deluding veil away. Behold us as we 
 are ; and show us to ourselves, lest we stray 
 into deeper mazes whence thou art hid. 
 
 God most holy ! if none but the pure 
 in heart might draw nigh to thee, we could 
 but stand afar, and cry "Depart from us, 
 we are sinful men, Lord ! " In turning 
 our face to thee, we remember how many 
 things thou hast against us : for proud 
 
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 thoughts and idle words and unloving deeds : 
 for wasted moments and reluctant duties 
 and too eager rest ; for the vain fancy, the 
 wandering desire, the scornful doubt, the 
 untrustful care ; for impatient murmurs and 
 unruly passions and the hardness of a 
 worldly heart ; Thou, Lord, canst call us 
 into judgment, and we have nought to 
 answer thee. But, most Merciful ! the 
 contrite also are dear to thee while the purer 
 fires of their hearts are not yet wholly 
 quenched. And thou art witness that we 
 do not love our guilty ways. make our 
 conscience true and tender, that we may 
 duly hate them as enemies to thee. Stir 
 up within us an effectual repentance, that 
 we may redeem the time that we have lost, 
 and in the hours that remain may do the 
 work of many days. 
 
 Father of spirits, that lovest whom thou 
 chastenest ! correct us in our weakness as 
 children of men, that we may love thee in 
 our strength as sons of God. May the same 
 mind be in us that was also in Christ Jesus,
 
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 that we may never shrink, when our hour 
 comes, from drinking of the cup that he 
 drank of. Wake in us a soul to obey thee, 
 not with the weariness of servile spirits, but 
 with the alacrity of the holy angels. Fill 
 us with a contempt for evil pleasures and 
 unfaithful ease ; and sustain us in the strict- 
 ness of a devoted life. Daily may we crucify 
 every selfish affection, and delight to bear 
 one another's burdens, to uphold each 
 other's faith and charity, being tender- 
 hearted and forgiving as we hope to be for- 
 given. Hold us to the true humility of the 
 soul that has not yet attained ; and may we 
 be moderate in our desires, diligent in our 
 trust, and content with the disposals of thy 
 Providence. 
 
 Lord of life and death ! Thy counsels are 
 secret: thy wisdom is infinite. We know 
 not what a day may bring forth. When our 
 hour arrives, and the veil between the 
 worlds begins to be lifted, may we freely 
 trust ourselves to thee and say, " Father, 
 into thy hands I commend my spirit." 
 Amen.
 
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 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 A THOU Eternal, in whom is all our trust ! 
 again we bring our prayer to thee. 
 But we cannot name thee with a fit and 
 holy Name. Where art Thou, Life of our 
 life, that we may join all wise and blessed 
 souls in serving thee ? Thou art too near 
 for our eye to see thee, too far for our labour- 
 ing mind to reach. Yet art thou ever in 
 the midst: and through all the paths of 
 our lot, and the changes of our hearts, and 
 the numbering of our days, we are alone 
 unchangeably with thee. 
 
 Why, then, Father everpresent, are we 
 so unlike to thee, and quite unworthy to be 
 called thy children ? We have wasted the 
 hours thou hast trusted to our care, and 
 served the appetites thou hast given us to 
 rule. We have not learned the heavenly 
 wisdom by which the yoke of life becomes
 
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 easy and its severest burden light ; but are 
 still chafed by restless cares, depressed by 
 light sorrows, and provoked by trivial in- 
 firmities. Lord, thou hast given us souls 
 conscious of holiness and sin : we know our 
 shortcomings : we mourn our slavery : to 
 thee we fly. Quicken us again with thy 
 free Spirit. 
 
 Kighteous God ! It is a solemn thing 
 to live by day and night beneath thy con- 
 stant eye and move onwards to thy mys- 
 terious eternity. Touch us with a sacred 
 dread, that we may stand in awe and sin 
 not ; and then, may we have no other fear. 
 Open our ears, as at a midnight watch, that 
 we may be intent at the faintest approach 
 of evil, and the softest whisper of thy grace. 
 Fill us with thy love of pureness, that we 
 may redeem our lives from confusion, and 
 lift up our wills from weakness, and in our 
 conscience draw nearer to thy peace. 
 Amid the temptations of passion and the 
 eagerness of the world may we be of quiet 
 heart ; seeing that the fashion of this world
 
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 passeth away. Set together by thee on 
 the same field of duty and of danger, may 
 we be all of one heart and mind; in pity 
 relieving, in mercy forgiving, and in honour 
 preferring one another ; able to endure hard- 
 ness together, as true soldiers of the cross ; 
 and seeing that we fall not out by the short 
 and narrow way that leadeth unto life. 
 
 God for ever faithful, ever sure ! we 
 commit ourselves to thee. There is no 
 place or time where thou art not. Let us 
 not die alone, Lord ! In the shadow of 
 that hour, let thy light arise and shine. 
 And unto thee, who canst keep our souls 
 from death, may we render then the offer- 
 ing of purer praise and the service of im- 
 mortal powers. Amen.
 
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 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 of all power and might! Thy secret 
 place shall be our shelter still. On one 
 thing our heart is fixed, that we will put our 
 trust in thee, though terrors also are around 
 thee. Thou hangest the world upon noth- 
 ing : yet we dwell thereon in peace. Thou 
 barest thine arm in the lightning: yet we 
 work in the fields which thou smitest, and 
 own it as the messenger of thy perfect will. 
 Darkness and tempest are often round thee ; 
 yet we expect thy light behind every cloud. 
 
 But, God most just ! let not our security 
 be the confidence of fools. Never may our 
 blind hearts say " How doth God know ? the 
 heavens are covered that he seeth not ; " but 
 always may we lie open to thy living presence, 
 and in the silence of the night, when deep 
 sleep falleth upon man, feel the passing of 
 thy Spirit and say "We are not alone, for
 
 the Father is with us." Only on thy tender 
 mercy can we rest. When we look up to 
 thee, we dare ask for no recompense for 
 obedience, lest we receive only the wages of 
 sin, and die : but we leave ourselves to thine 
 infinite pity, in the hope that to them that 
 have loved much and repented with many 
 tears, thou wilt say, " Your sins are forgiven ; 
 go in peace." 
 
 Thou Guide of the wanderer ! our mystic 
 cloud by day and fire by night ! though we 
 have erred from thy ways in the desert of 
 our temptation, thou knowest that we 
 have not wholly gone astray. Our secret 
 spirit still searcheth after thee : " As the 
 hart panteth after the water-brooks, so 
 thirsteth our soul after thee, God." Cool 
 the heats of our passion, refresh the barren- 
 ness of our desires, and be to us a wellspring 
 of everlasting life. Visit us with the new 
 birth into the meekness and lowliness of 
 Christ, that we may look not every one on 
 his own things, but every one also on the 
 things of others ; emptying our wills of pride,
 
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 and our hearts of complaining, and laying 
 down all our glories before the cross. Amid 
 the profusion of thy gifts, may we remember 
 that we are disciples of one who had not 
 where to lay his head. Make us ashamed of 
 sloth and indulgence, and ever ready to deny 
 ourselves, and offer ourselves up, a living 
 sacrifice to thee. Let no act, or word, or 
 thought of ours intercept our constant look 
 to thee : and bearing in our conscience a hope 
 of thy peace, may we be at peace. For when 
 thou givest quietness, who, Lord, shall make 
 trouble ? 
 
 God of our life ! we know not our hour, 
 and thou keepest silent about our end. In a 
 moment we may die, and at midnight be 
 taken away without hand, and be seen no 
 more. May we maintain our watch with 
 patience, and be ready, without any strug- 
 gling will, to make the lonely pass with 
 thee. Through life and death strengthen 
 us, Lord, to meet all thy perfect will. 
 Amen.
 
 MORNING OE EVENING. 
 
 T OED of all worlds ! Thou living God, whom 
 the heaven of heavens cannot contain ! 
 We know that thou art with us really, though 
 we forget thee. Thou art in the light, 
 though it alone is visible ; and in the dark- 
 ness, though, when we feel after thee, we 
 cannot find thee. All places are compassed 
 by thine immensity: all times belong to 
 thine eternity. And thy Spirit, which 
 searcheth all things, visiteth our souls, as the 
 wind that bloweth where it listeth, and we 
 cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it 
 goeth : yet it dwelleth with us as the image 
 of a voice. When it divideth for us sacred 
 things from profane, may we veil our head in 
 meekness, and listen to it with a perfect 
 trust. 
 
 Kighteous God ! Now that we look up to 
 thy pure and awful eye, we discover the
 
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 hardness of our hearts. Thou hast trusted 
 us in vain with this solemn life. We have 
 abused its opportunities to our poor pleasure, 
 and have trodden with careless feet its sacred 
 ground of duty. In the presence of thy 
 constant pity we have shut our thoughts 
 against mercy and indulged a selfish mind. 
 Amid the refuge of thy Providence, we have 
 been harassed like those that have no God, 
 and shed many faithless tears. And in hear- 
 ing of thy blessed and inspiring call, we have 
 not hastened to the work which thou hast 
 given us to do, but have been like him who 
 promised with vain lips, saying, " I go, 
 Lord," yet went not. When in the darkness 
 of our transgressions we think of thine 
 infinite holiness, thy voice awakes us like 
 thunder in the dead of night : and we are 
 alone with thy dread power. 
 
 Yet, Thou all-merciful ! we dare not be 
 afraid of thee. For thy grace, appearing in 
 all great and holy souls, hath taught us that 
 perfect love which casteth out fear. Nothing 
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 spirits have not wholly gone astray, but look 
 to thee from afar, and turn with longing 
 hope to a diviner life. Kouse us, Lord, 
 from the sleep of insensibility and the dreams 
 of pleasurable sin. Show us that the precious 
 daylight is far spent ; and, while there is yet 
 time, may we finish the task whereunto we 
 are sent. 
 
 Lord Almighty! the soul in anguish, 
 the troubled spirit crieth unto thee. In 
 every sorrow which awaits us, may we look 
 up without despair. If we are driven by 
 strong trouble, as a bird before the storm, 
 may we find shelter in thee, as in the clefts 
 of the everlasting Eock which the tempests 
 cannot shake. In whom should we put our 
 trust but in thee who canst not fail ? Times 
 are not hidden from the Almighty ; and we 
 would resign ourselves into thy hands for 
 evermore. Amen.
 
 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 INFINITE GOD, who alone hast always 
 been and changest not ! from whom 
 nothing passeth and is gone and to whom 
 no new thing ever can appear! In thee 
 only do we find our unfailing refuge. How 
 can we fix ourselves in thee, that our pur- 
 poses be not broken off, and we pass not 
 without hope away ? For our light is short, 
 pursued by the darkness ; and at noontide 
 we are without strength and ready to fade. 
 In thy calmness remember our vain trou- 
 bles, gracious Lord ! And in our doubts and 
 fears may we remember thy constant per- 
 fectness. In our blindness and amazement 
 thou art at our right hand with thine in- 
 finite realities. And at this very moment 
 thy thought containeth the mysteries we 
 yearn to know, and seeth all the past at 
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 we trust. As Thou, who knowest all things, 
 art the Everblessed, may we, in the repose 
 of faith, take courage and be glad. 
 
 Sanctifying God ! Inspirer of great and 
 saintly souls, who hast given us discernment 
 of the divine trust of life ! Fill us with a 
 true and faithful spirit, ashamed to sleep, 
 while thou lendest light for another duty, 
 resolute to work thy will, till all our 
 strength be spent, prepared for cheerful rest 
 when thou wilt have us wait and be ready 
 to depart. Never, in the crush and storm 
 of life, may we quench thy secret spirit ; 
 but so cherish it that, amid earthly and 
 transitory things, it may fill us with the 
 glow of heavenly affections and the light of 
 tranquil faith. 
 
 Father of men, who regardest thy children 
 with compassion ! Behold this earth, which 
 thou hast given to our care, hath many 
 griefs, and is sad with a weight of shameful 
 sins. Keep us pure from the evil, and make 
 us strong to contend against it. Let us not 
 shut our hearts against pity, Thou All-
 
 merciful ! but seek to heal the wounds with 
 which our fellow-men lie stricken on the 
 way. May we make no peace with oppres- 
 sion ; but, amid the negligence of the world 
 and the seduction of guilty custom, put into 
 us the spirit of the holy prophets and mar- 
 tyrs of old, that we may cry aloud and spare 
 not. Yet, Lord, may it be that we sin 
 not in our anger. Touch us with the gentle- 
 ness of Christ; and so lift up within us a 
 meek aspiring mind, that we may never say 
 to our brother " I am holier than thou," 
 but only ask of thee " God, be merciful to 
 me a sinner! " 
 
 So may we labour and watch and pray for 
 the coming of thy kingdom. Amen.
 
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 MORNING OE EVENING. 
 
 A THOU in whom we live and move and 
 have our being ! who hast created and 
 known us, one by one ! All generations 
 shall worship thee, while sun and moon 
 endure. Thine we must needs be : if thou 
 but look for us, we are ; and if thou but 
 hide thy face, thou prevailest against us, 
 and we pass away. Yet thine alone we fear 
 not to be : for thou wilt have all things 
 ordered well, and none can take us out 
 of thy hand that holds us. Though the 
 heavens should be rolled together as a scroll, 
 and all their host fall down as the leaf 
 falleth from the vine, thou wilt keep the 
 faithful souls that trust thee and there shall 
 no evil touch them. 
 
 But, Most Holy, beside whom there is 
 none good ! Why must we ever approach 
 thee as wanderers returning from afar ?
 
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 Did we keep near thee with a constant 
 mind, and compose our hearts in converse 
 with thee, there were no lot so blest as ours. 
 Yet how often do we remember thee no 
 more ! In our idle words, we forget thy 
 listening ear; in our time of wealth, thy 
 watch upon our trust; in the world's vain 
 show, thy great reality ; and in our anxious 
 troubles, thy waiting to bear the burden for 
 us. We are ashamed of our sinful delusions, 
 and would guard against them with a more 
 vigilant spirit. that thou wouldst speak 
 to us in our temptations, show us how vain 
 it is to call evil good, sustain us in our 
 weakness, and suffer not our foot to be 
 moved ! 
 
 Thou Everlasting Hope of men ! Why 
 should we deem thee a stranger upon the 
 earth, as a wayfarer that tarrieth for a night 
 and turneth aside? Thou art yet in the 
 midst, if we but seek thee with an open soul. 
 May we begin anew to do thy will, that we 
 may know thee as the Living God; re- 
 nouncing every low desire which may turn 
 
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 the light that is within us to darkness, and 
 surrendering ourselves to that love of what 
 is pure and true, by which we become chil- 
 dren of the Highest. In malice, may we be 
 as infants ; in understanding, as men ; in 
 truth, as the martyrs; in affection, as the 
 angels. May we be fearless to speak, and 
 constant to do, thy perfect will; ready for 
 the earthly cross, or for the heavenly rest ; 
 and faithful to take the bitterest cup of duty, 
 that may not pass from us except we drink it. 
 Father of spirits ! We yield ourselves to 
 thee. We will be afraid of neither sorrow 
 nor death in a world where many saintly 
 souls have sanctified them by a divine 
 patience, and amid a Providence wherein no 
 evil thing can dwell. Clinging unto thee, 
 we shall not perish with the fashion of 
 this world that passeth away. As sparks 
 falling on the river, so shall the glories of 
 our strength go out. But the graces of the 
 holy soul shall be as the brightness of the 
 firmament, and as the stars for ever and 
 ever. In thee, Lord, is our undying 
 trust. Amen.
 
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 MOENINO OR EVENING, 
 
 'THE day is thine, Lord ; the night also 
 is thine. In the morning we wait on 
 thee to renew our strength : in the evening, 
 to find the shelter of thy wing. Thou art 
 our Sun; and apart from thee our toil is 
 blind and weary, and there is no glory in 
 our joy. Thou art our Shade; and only 
 when thou closest round us, can our spirits 
 find their rest. Blessed and abiding God ! 
 let us not seek thee far, for thou art here ; 
 but only lay our hearts low before thee, and 
 thou wilt enter in. 
 
 How long have thy servants thirsted after 
 thee, thou spring of everlasting life ! In 
 this land of our home the meditations of ages 
 surround us, and through the treasured 
 thoughts of the wise in many generations 
 we are lifted into a light beyond the soli- 
 tary soul. Countless are thy witnesses,
 
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 Eternal God ! the stars without number 
 are but a little part of them; and the 
 prayers and aspirings of every heart of man 
 can never cease to speak thee. Humbled 
 and blind amid thy manifold glories, may 
 we find rest in the simplicity of Christ, and 
 be among the pure in heart who alone can 
 see thee. Save us from feeling after thee 
 in vain through the darkness of a selfish 
 and unchastened mind. By thy tender 
 grace shame away all prejudice and scorn, 
 melt down our pride, quiet our fears, 
 sweeten our affections, and lift us above 
 the fretfulness of the world into thy divine 
 repose. And, Arm of the Lord ! awake 
 our slumbering and heedless wills, that we 
 may take all our yoke, and give ourselves 
 up to thee, not by inward vision only, but 
 by faithful service. As Thou, Father, 
 workest everlastingly, and not one of thy 
 blessings ever faileth, may we never grow 
 weary of well-doing; but still follow the 
 steps of thy beloved Son to-day and to- 
 morrow, till the sacrifice of ourselves be 
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 Thou, whose Word hath appeared, full 
 of grace and truth in our humanity, and in 
 the humiliation perfected the holiness of 
 life ! more and more let the same mind be 
 in us which was also in Christ Jesus, that 
 we may divest ourselves of every claim, and 
 look for no final peace without the cross. 
 By a patient, loving, trustful spirit, steadfast 
 under evil and hopeful of all good, may we 
 rise into ever nearer communion with thee ; 
 and then, in thine own best time, when we 
 are purified by dews of thy grace on our 
 repentance and prepared for the rest that 
 remaineth, join us at length to the august 
 and saintly company of thy redeemed. 
 
 Hear our suppliant cry, Lord; and 
 have regard to it, not by the measure of our 
 deservings, but according to the fulness of 
 thy mercy. Amen.
 
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 MOENING OE EVENING. 
 
 TTNTO Thee, Source of life and strength, 
 we lift our longing eyes again. Look 
 on us in thy pity, Lord : shine upon us with 
 thy grace : receive us into thine affection. 
 What abiding stay have we in heaven or on 
 earth but thee alone, who art and wast and 
 art to come ? To us belong the courses of 
 ceaseless change : we come and go, we live 
 and die, we pass through the light and 
 darkness of this world ; and it is not given 
 to us to say "Here will we rest." But 
 around thee, the Centre of all, day and 
 night, summer and winter, joy and sorrow, 
 circle continually, and come not nigh to thee. 
 Wert thou only great in thine infinitude, 
 Most High ! the world would be but vanity 
 and our life as nothing before thee. But thy 
 love also is infinite and deemeth nothing 
 small which thou hast made: and our
 
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 souls, created in thine image and visited 
 by thy Spirit, thou callest to meet thee face 
 to face. 
 
 Thou, on whose goodness we lie down, 
 like the flock upon the green pastures, and 
 from whose purity we quench our thirst, as 
 from the clear waters ! many of thy mercies 
 do we plainly see, and we believe in a 
 boundless store behind. No morning stars 
 that sing together can have deeper call than 
 we for grateful joy. Thou hast given us 
 a life of high vocation, and thine own 
 breathing in our hearts interprets for us its 
 sacred opportunities. Thou hast cheered 
 the way with many dear affections and 
 glimpses of solemn beauty and everlasting 
 truth. Not a cloud of sorrow, but thou 
 hast touched with glory : not a dusty atmo- 
 sphere of care, but thy light shines through ! 
 And lest our spirits should fail before thy 
 unattainable perfection, thou hast set us in 
 the train of thy saints who have learned to 
 take up the cross of sacrifice. 
 
 with what glad thanks would we praise
 
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 thee, Gracious Lord ! did we not know that 
 our thoughtless lives would contradict the 
 song upon our lips ! For we have rendered 
 but a cold answer to thy free affection, and 
 have abused our trust to the poor purposes 
 of our own will. Thine awful presence we 
 have forgot. Of thine everlasting law of 
 duty we have made light. Thine immortal 
 promise has but faintly shone upon our 
 sorrows. And our feverish desires have 
 scarcely felt the cool sprinkling from thy 
 well of life. Lord ! how long shall we 
 delude ourselves by the pressure of vain 
 custom, and the flatteries of our idle hearts ? 
 Let the time past suffice to have wrought 
 our own will, and now make us consecrate 
 to thine. Whenever we grow eager for 
 unworthy things or troubled about mean 
 cares, turn on us that look of thine which 
 shows us all our littleness and all thy deep 
 compassion. Let thy Spirit be felt to hover 
 near our souls : and beneath the air of its 
 wing may every passion lie quiet, and all 
 our better love spring up with hope and
 
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 power. In care, in haste, in provocation, 
 keep us ever even, ever still. In temptation, 
 make us quick and clear and strong. Amid 
 threats and evil opinion give us a prophet's 
 heart to disregard the favour of men and 
 simply heed the truth of God. And in all 
 our passage through this world of many sins 
 and sorrows, fill us with Christ's own patient 
 and helpful spirit, open to every holy affec- 
 tion, and always ready to comfort and forgive. 
 Thus own us, Heavenly Father, as thy true 
 children, and prepare us for thy more intimate 
 presence. Amen.
 
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 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 A GOD, our Father ! Spirit of Grace and 
 goodness ! Thou dwellest with the souls 
 that will dwell with thee, and comest forth 
 to meet us when we seek thee truly. Art 
 thou not here, Lord, and in thy servants' 
 silent hearts, waiting for their thoughts of 
 penitence and prayer ? Hast thou not said 
 " Seek ye my face ? " Thy face, Lord, 
 will we seek. Lo! we come to learn thy 
 perfect will. 
 
 Without thee, Lord, we cannot live; 
 for thou art our only light : and without 
 thee we dare not die ; for thou art our life 
 when we seem to perish. Amid all our 
 changes, thou canst not fail. Unto thee 
 all things are of old, from everlasting days : 
 but unto us who are of yesterday thou hast 
 made all things new. We are as strangers 
 in thy wondrous universe : yet as children
 
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 at home within thy shelter, thou dear and 
 blessed God. 
 
 Father, who grantest nothing to our 
 complaints, but thy best blessings to our 
 love and trust ! inspire us with an entire and 
 joyful confidence in thee. May we learn to 
 forget our own poor will in seeking and in 
 bearing thine. We know, Lord, that we 
 cannot understand thy Providence : for we 
 and all that we behold are in its awful 
 stream, and there is nothing fixed but thee. 
 In thy hands are all our hearts and ways, 
 as the rivers of water, to turn them whither- 
 soever thou wilt. The courses of our lot 
 we leave to thee. Only, whether thou take 
 them through the rocky desert or by the 
 green pastures, make them to overflow with 
 the waters of life, and replenish them from 
 the fountains of thy holy hill. 
 
 Thou Strength of the righteous ! In- 
 spirer of the true Seers and Prophets, and 
 chiefly of the Man of Sorrows whose spirit 
 was no other than thine own ! how tender 
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 grieved in our griefs, and rejoiced to bear 
 our sicknesses away! how awful thy re- 
 bukes, if they smite, like his, upon the 
 heart of sin! how healing thine approval, 
 which seeth, like his, in secret, and blesseth 
 the mite of a pure charity, and calleth to 
 itself the hearts in which there is no guile ! 
 The lowly who had feared thee are glad, 
 Lord, that Thou, incomprehensible in 
 thine infinitude, standest revealed in thy 
 holiest servants whom we may approach and 
 love; and that in following them we may 
 best resemble thee. May the sanctity of 
 their faith and spirit rest upon all our life, 
 refreshing the weariest task and making our 
 daily toil divine ; teaching us not to be 
 pleasers of ourselves, but to restrain our 
 wayward will and desire that only which is 
 right; filling us with shame for our great 
 shortcomings and a patient striving after a 
 better mind; possessing us with such pity 
 and labour for the ills of men as may lead 
 us towards the peace of God ; and strength- 
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 weeping and in fear, that others may reap 
 hereafter the fruits of joy and love. 
 
 Dwell closely with us while we live, 
 Lord, and stay with us when we die, the 
 steadfast light of our hearts, and our portion 
 for ever ! Amen.
 
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 MOENING OE EVENING. 
 
 A GOD, Thou only Refuge of thy chil- 
 dren ! who remainest true though all 
 else should fail, and livest though all things 
 di Cover us now when we fly to thee. 
 Thy shelter was around our fathers. Thy 
 voice called them away, and bids us seek 
 thee here till we depart to be with them. 
 In thy memory are the lives of all men 
 from of old. Before thy sight are the secret 
 hearts of all the living. We stand in awe 
 of thy justice which, since the ages began, 
 hath never changed : and we cling to thy 
 mercy that passeth not away. 
 
 Lord of life ! we cannot go where thou 
 and thy blessings are not spread abroad. 
 Nothing is deep and high as thou, whose 
 spirit dwelleth in the roots of the ocean and 
 is clothed with the foldings of the heavenly 
 light. In secret thou fillest the earth and
 
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 sky and all things that are known by the 
 seeing of the eye and the hearing of the ear : 
 but thou art open only to the cleansed 
 heart. We know that of thine excellency 
 we cannot fitly speak ; though it be the con- 
 stant wonder of our minds. But, Lord, 
 it is only because our souls are dull and 
 cold and our tongues are stiff to praise thee. 
 Almighty Father ! Thou art a God afar 
 off as well as nigh at hand. Thou who 
 in times past didst pity the prayers of our 
 forerunners, and especially of that suffer- 
 ing servant of thine whom thou hast made 
 our Leader unto thee ! be pleased to 
 strengthen us now, Lord, to bear our 
 lighter cross and surrender ourselves for 
 duty and for trial unto thee. Show us 
 something of the blessed peace with which 
 they now look back on their days of 
 strong crying and tears, and teach us 
 that it is far better to die in thy service 
 than to live for our own. Rebuke within us 
 all immoderate desires, all unquiet temper, 
 all presumptuous expectations, al ignoble
 
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 self-indulgence : and feeling on us the em- 
 brace of thy Fatherly hand, may we meekly 
 and with courage go into the darkest ways 
 of our pilgrimage ; anxious not to change 
 thy perfect will, but only to do and bear 
 it worthily. If the crosses of life must 
 sometimes make us sad, never, Lord, 
 may they make us ashamed : but may thy 
 wisdom subdue us and thy peace be with 
 us; and when we are weakest, make us 
 strongest. Knowing ourselves, and that in 
 forgetting thee is our greatest infirmity, in 
 cleaving to thee our true dignity and power, 
 may we not be high-minded, but fear. May 
 our aspirations more and more be holy and 
 heavenward. Cool within us all heats of 
 passion : and may thy mercies not fall as 
 snow upon a burning land, but be treasured 
 in the clefts and lie gently on the heights of 
 our soul, and show forth the everlasting 
 sunshine of thy grace. May we spend all 
 our days as in thy presence, and meet our 
 death in the strength of thy promise, and 
 pass thence into the nearer light of thy 
 knowledge and thy love. Amen.
 
 MOKNING- OR EVENING. 
 
 C\ THOU whose glory filleth all things ! 
 whose greatness we can never find, but 
 whose presence we would always seek ! whose 
 excellency is more than we can know, yet all 
 that we adore ! from the confused voices of 
 our life we turn to thy silent presence : from 
 our dark and bounded sky we issue forth into 
 thy pure and infinite light. 0, come, Thou 
 Holy Spirit, we beseech thee ! and even to 
 our dull clay bring thy sanctity and dwell. 
 
 God ! in time past we have not known 
 thee. Else, how could we ever murmur 
 while thy Providence rules us or neglect 
 any task which thy law of Duty brings ? 
 Lord ! we believe : Help thou our unbelief ! 
 For we have not faith which worketh by love 
 and fainteth not. Our deepest desire is still 
 unto thee. But we are weary to think of our 
 fruitless lives, of the rashness of our self-will 
 
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 and the cowardice of our right affections, of 
 our pride in that which perisheth and our 
 slight of things that are eternal. for a 
 true heart of trust, to offer ourselves up as a 
 living sacrifice! For what are poverty or 
 riches, affliction or gladness, life or death, to 
 them that have thy constant peace, Lord ? 
 Thou, whom all the contrite bless and 
 only the pure in heart can truly know ! Fill 
 us with the strength of them that know their 
 weakness, and lean ever upon thee. May 
 the sorrows of our repentance never be un- 
 availing, but lead us to a holy hope, a meek 
 faith, a never-ceasing charity. Expecting 
 nothing for ourselves and utterly trusting 
 thee, may we be ready to suffer any peril or 
 tribulation that may threaten to hinder our 
 duty and make us ashamed. That we are 
 thy children, made partakers of thy spirit, 
 and thine immortality, may we feel to be 
 supreme among our blessings and greater 
 than all our griefs. As thy ceaseless mercies 
 descend upon our hearts, may they not fall 
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 small rain upon the herbage that maketh the 
 pastures glad. And when thy cloud encom- 
 passeth us and thy mystery maketh us afraid, 
 may we be still, while thou ordainest dark- 
 ness; and then use thy returning light in 
 more earnest duty and more cheerful love. 
 
 Spirit of grace, who withholdest thy 
 blessing from none! take from us the 
 tediousness and anxiety of a selfish mind, 
 the unfruitfulness of cold affections, the 
 weakness of an inconstant will. With the 
 simplicity of a great purpose, the quiet of a 
 meek temper, and the power of a well-ordered 
 soul, may we pass through the toils and 
 watches of our pilgrimage; grateful for all 
 that may render the burden of duty light; 
 and even in strong trouble rejoicing to be 
 deemed worthy of the severer service of thy 
 will. Amen.
 
 MOKNING OE EVENING. 
 
 A GOD? Thou Spirit of our secret life, 
 apart from whom our nature faints ! 
 weary of ourselves, we come to thy shelter. 
 Our span of troubled days we bring to thy 
 calm eternity. Over our path of pilgrimage 
 we feel the spaces of thy immensity : on the 
 dimness of our pure desires we seek the glow 
 of thy paternal smile : in the strife of sin 
 and the sadness of mortality we find a spirit 
 of power and hope in the memory of thy 
 holy Providence. 
 
 Infinite Kuler of creation, whose Spirit 
 dwells in every world ! we look not into the 
 solemn heavens for thee, though thou art 
 there : we search not in the ocean for thy 
 presence, though it murmurs with thy voice : 
 we wait not for the wings of the wind 
 to bring thee nigh, though they are thy 
 messengers : for thou art in our hearts,
 
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 God, and makest thine abode in the deep 
 places of our thought and love ; and into 
 each gentle affection, each contrite sorrow, 
 each higher aspiration we would retire to 
 meet and worship thee. 
 
 Lord of our living conscience, who speakest 
 to us in the voice of duty and pleadest with 
 us in the grief of sin ! Thy creatures that 
 know thee not have more truly served thee 
 than our conscious minds ; and while seasons 
 and waves obey thy word, our vacillating 
 desires forget to finish thy work, our restless 
 passions keep not the order of thy will. 
 God ! Thou knowest the soul within us, that 
 it is not built up as a sanctuary for thy 
 praise; but is a wreck of broken purposes 
 and fallen aspirations and desecrated affec- 
 tions. Fountain of purity and peace ! shed 
 on us the influence of a new hope and holier 
 sympathies : refresh our dry souls with the 
 dews of a true penitence. that our strength 
 might no more fail, or our wills be deluded, 
 when we strive against the weight of in- 
 dolence, the seductions of self-love, and the 
 weakness of a desponding mind !
 
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 Father, who dost bless us always even 
 in our griefs, and love us even in our sins ! 
 from the spirit of Jesus the crucified whose 
 cry went up unto thee, from his meek 
 triumph, his passage to immortal rest, we 
 would learn to trust thee and look up amid 
 the sadness of thy Providence. may our 
 affections be more and more followers of 
 thee, as dear children, and spread, like thy 
 tranquillizing presence, wherever suffering 
 is laid low, or the sigh of the oppressed is 
 heard, or remorse retires to weep. May we 
 consecrate ourselves and imitate thee by 
 blessing others. By the breath of a divine 
 love within us may the cloud of anxiety and 
 the storm of fretful passions be swept away. 
 Beneath the light of thy peace may even the 
 valley of the shadow of death be to our feet 
 as the green pastures and the still waters. 
 And when we pass into that land which no 
 eye hath seen, may we be of ready heart to 
 meet our forerunners there, and bless thee 
 that the days of sorrow and temptation are 
 finished. Amen.
 
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 MORNING OR EVENING. 
 
 A LORD our God, whose eye searcheth for 
 V truth and purity of heart ! Turn us now 
 away from every vanity of thought, and draw 
 forth some living light of trust and love, 
 that we may meet thee, spirit to Spirit, the 
 weak to the Almighty, the sad and sinful to 
 the only Blessed and Holy. thou well- 
 spring of eternal life ! we bring to thee the 
 thirst we cannot quench : send the cooling 
 drops which shall abate the fever of vain 
 desire and baptize us into peace with thee. 
 
 Thou Everpresent ! there is no faithful- 
 ness gentle and long-suffering as thine. 
 All our unrest of soul cometh only hence, 
 that we keep not close to thee, nor lay our- 
 selves freely open to thy ready help. Thy 
 calmness is ever by to swallow up our fretful 
 cares; thy silent looks, to chide our eager 
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 whatever is mean and low. Every hour of 
 eternity is full of thee. There is no desert 
 place in life or death where thou art not. 
 It is we alone, Lord, that stray and 
 change : and when our faithless spirits 
 would return to thee again, thou stretchest 
 forth thy hand and comfortest us. Never 
 may we forget thee till sin hath made thee 
 terrible. Hold not thy peace too long with 
 us, Thou All-merciful! but chasten us 
 betimes, ere we have ceased to lay thy will 
 to heart. 
 
 Thou Eternal, in whose appointment 
 our life standeth ! Thou hast committed our 
 work to us, and we would commit our cares 
 to Thee. May we feel that we are not our 
 own, and that thou wilt heed our wants, 
 while we are intent upon thy will. May 
 we never dwell carelessly or say in our hearts 
 " I am here and there is none over me ; " 
 nor anxiously, as though our path were hid ; 
 but with a mind simply fixed upon our trust, 
 and choosing nothing but the dispositions 
 of thy Providence. Before thee, Lord, 
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 our toil and love thee in our souls. Yet 
 often have we coveted our rest before the 
 time, and stretched forth our hand to gather 
 it as the hasty fruit before the summer; 
 and so it has been small and bitter to the 
 taste. Henceforth, we would wait upon thy 
 seasons, and leave ourselves to thee. More 
 and more fill us with that pity for others' 
 troubles which comes from forgetfulness of 
 our own; with the charity of them that 
 know their own un worthiness ; with the 
 alacrity of mortals that may not boast of the 
 morrow ; and the glad hope of the children 
 of eternity. Lead us in the straight paths of 
 simplicity and sanctity; and may neither 
 the flatteries nor the censures of men betray 
 us into a devious step. And when the last 
 dimness steals upon our eyes and draws the 
 veil to hide all earthly light, give us to see 
 in the spirit the gracious angels of thy mercy 
 to bear us from the scenes of time, and feel 
 a spring of joys permanent as the numbers 
 of eternity. And unto thee, the beginning 
 and the end, Lord of the living, refuge of the 
 dying, be thanks and praise for ever ! Amen.
 
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 MOKNING OE EVENING. 
 
 PENITENTIAL PRATEE. 
 
 A GOD, who art and wast and art to come ! 
 who settest forth our years from thine 
 eternity and shapest the heavens from thine 
 immensity ! most deeply hidden from us, 
 yet most surely present with us ! how can 
 we find thee in our darkness here, seeing 
 that thou boldest back the face of thy 
 throne and spreadest thy cloud upon it? 
 Yet, Lord, all things are possible to thee : 
 Thou canst turn the shadow of death into 
 morning. Though there is nothing clean in 
 thy sight, and thou beholdest the moon and 
 it shineth not, and chargest the angels with 
 folly, yet unto this man wilt thou look, 
 even unto him that is of a humble spirit, 
 and that crieth to thee with a contrite 
 voice. 
 And how else, our Witness and our
 
 Judge, can we bring to thee the memory of 
 our unworthiness and the sadness of our 
 confessions ? For we cannot wash our hands 
 in innocency, or present the holy hearts in 
 which thou delightest to dwell. Make clear 
 unto us, Lord, the countenance of thy 
 love, for our sins are heavy upon us. We 
 have not offered unto thee the living sacrifice 
 of our bodies and our spirits, which are thine ; 
 but have served the vain imaginations of an 
 unsanctified mind. Living without thee, we 
 have chafed against the ills thou sendest for 
 our patience, and fainted beneath the burden 
 for which thou givest strength, and fallen 
 from the love that burns within us when we 
 gaze on thee. God of mercy ! we have 
 lost the shield of faith and lie before thee 
 stricken by the darts of sin. Heal us with 
 a restoring sorrow, and be with us that we 
 fall no more. 
 
 Spirit of spirits ! Light of lights ! who 
 livest in all great and holy souls, and shinest 
 for us in the face of Jesus Christ ! humble 
 us with his lowly surrender unto thee, and
 
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 incline us, with the simplicity of disciples 
 sitting at his feet, to that good part which 
 shall not be taken from us. Never may we 
 turn our ear from the still small voice in 
 which thou art heard in the deep places of 
 our souls : and, as we listen to it, may the 
 noise of our passions be quieted, and the voice 
 of the charmer be unheeded, and our whole 
 life and death become as an answer to thy 
 call " Yea, Lord, here I am." May we de- 
 cline no duty which thou sendest; fear no 
 trial which thou appointest, grow cold in no 
 affection which thou approvest. Fill us 
 with all meekness and gentleness ; with for- 
 bearance to the weak, lest we also be 
 tempted ; with pity for the suffering, seeing 
 that we too dwell in houses of clay; with 
 courage against temptation, since thou art 
 on our side ; with a spirit of praise and love 
 amid our joys, remembering that we can 
 receive nothing except it be given us of 
 heaven ; and with a blessed hope in death, 
 befitting those whose life is hid with Christ 
 in God. Amen.
 
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 MOENING OE EVENING. 
 
 FIRST ASSEMBLING AFTER DEATH OF A HEAD OF THE 
 FAMILY. 
 
 A GOD of light eternal ! we look to thee. 
 And though thy cloud is round about 
 thee and the shadow lies upon us here, we 
 know that thy mercy is undimmed; and 
 with perfect trust we wait for thee, as they 
 whose eyes watch for the morning. We 
 own thee as the only Lord of life and death. 
 Do with us as thou wilt : call us to our work, 
 or to our rest : bid us take our burden, or lay 
 it down. We murmur not, Lord. Only 
 abide with us by night and day ; and be our 
 strength to do and bear thy perfect will. 
 
 Thou hast sent among us thy sad mes- 
 senger, our God, and taken from us thy 
 faithful servant, the leader of our way, to 
 whom our eyes looked up, with whom we 
 took sweet counsel, and whose spirit turned
 
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 our duties into love. But the sorrow of our 
 hearts pleads with us to bless thee for the 
 sacred ties which thou hast severed, for the 
 holy wisdom, the tender patience, the pure 
 humanity, which have held our spirits in 
 reverence. Thou hast withdrawn them into 
 thy mystic shadows : Thy will be done. 
 Only, take not all away : by the image in our 
 souls, leave us whatever has been sweet and 
 strong and sacred in the presence which here 
 we shall know no more ; that the voice we 
 have loved may yet reach us through the 
 solemn silence. 
 
 O God, Thou Helper of the helpless ! look 
 upon this sorrowing home with thy tender 
 mercy. Sustain and comfort every mourning 
 heart. In thy holy keeping are the living 
 and the dead : and all are safe, till thou 
 bring them to thine everlasting light. Give 
 us strength to return to the quiet duties of 
 our place. With chastened desires, with 
 better aspirations, with truer diligence, with 
 less trust in ourselves and more rest in thee ; 
 may we dedicate ourselves anew to the
 
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 service of thy will ; that, in the faith and 
 spirit of him who was made perfect through 
 suffering, each of us may be ready to say, 
 whenever the hour shall strike, ' Father, I 
 have finished the work which thou gavest 
 me to do.' Amen.
 
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 FOE THE OPENING OF A NEW PLACE OF 
 WORSHIP. 
 
 f\ THOU who alone hast ever been and wilt 
 ever be ! Thou appointest to us a begin- 
 ning of days and end of years which thou 
 knowest not; and wilt not cast away the 
 offerings of our changeful life, or withhold thy 
 consecration from our growing needs and 
 fresher pieties ; while still our ancient prayer, 
 seeking only what our fathers sought, is not 
 wearisome to thee. patient Spirit of 
 Eternity ! with what long-suffering dost thou 
 permit the cry of trouble and aspiration unto 
 thee ! Thy thought, so solemn in the stars, 
 so beautiful upon the earth, is holy in our 
 souls, and tender in the face of Christ. When 
 we would hide ourselves from thy mystery, 
 we are drawn forwards by thy grace : and 
 when we shirnk away, because we have 
 nothing to render, thou callest unto us 
 1 Give me your heart.'
 
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 Our hearts, Lord, would we give, and 
 bring their purest fires to burn upon thine 
 altar here. Yet can we find no incense pleas- 
 ing to thee because true to us, save the 
 breathing of a contrite spirit : for here 
 beneath thine eye we remember our broken 
 vows, our languid will, our cold affections, 
 and all the disorder of our souls. Lord, 
 thou knowest all things, and not a thought 
 of our mind is hid from thee. Are we not 
 weary of our shortcomings, and, when we see 
 ourselves as thou seest us, do we not abhor 
 our sins ? Yea, Lord, our spirit thirsteth for 
 thee, as the traveller faints in the desert for 
 the meadow land and the living waters. 
 Kestore the brightness of thy first rising, 
 and let not thy dawn go back and become 
 sad with clouds. Clear the dim eye of 
 our faith, and shine with thy presence on 
 the path before our feet, and sustain us to 
 work while it is yet day ; that we may never 
 say 'The daylight is past, the evening is 
 come, and we are not saved ! ' 
 
 Lord of every world, before whom stand 
 
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 the spirits of the living and the dead! 
 Thousands praise thee with a voice from 
 which mortal sadness hath passed away. 
 Prepare us to follow their upward track and 
 join their glorious hymn. And while we 
 watch yet one hour here, whether in the 
 retreats of sorrow or on the mount of vision, 
 may we feel the great communion of the 
 faithful of all ages gathered round our souls. 
 And hence may we carry a fresh sanctity and 
 order into our homes ; modest desires and 
 pure integrity into the world ; forbearance to 
 the wayward ; help to the weak ; pity to the 
 burdened and afflicted ; hope to the fearful ; 
 and charity to all men. 
 
 Thou art the God of future years. We 
 leave them, with their treasures and their 
 secrets, at thy feet. When our time is past, 
 may our children serve thee with higher 
 faith and nobler hearts. And so long as a 
 generation shall seek thee here, may the 
 careless be awakened, the faithful confirmed, 
 the mourner comforted, and the pure in heart 
 be brought to see their God. May age be
 
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 filled with cheerful hope, and the hand of 
 Christ shed its blessing on the child. Hear 
 us in thy mercy, Father Everlasting ; and 
 bid thy glory dwell among us, while a heart 
 remains to be filled with love and joy and 
 peace. Amen.
 
 PUBLIC SERVICE OF PRAYER. 
 
 MOKNING- OR EVENING. 
 
 IT The Minister, entering the desk, and the People, standing, 
 shall say : 
 
 Minister. The Lord be with you. 
 
 People. And with thy spirit. 
 
 Minister. Come, let us return unto the Lord ; 
 and he will raise us up, and we shall live in 
 his sight. 
 
 People. Blessed be the Lord God, who 
 turneth not our prayer away, nor his mercy 
 from us. 
 
 Minister. The most High dwelleth not in 
 temples made with hands. 
 
 People. He is not far from any one of us. 
 
 IT Then shall the Minister say : 
 
 "TjEARLY beloved brethren, the heavenly 
 
 Father in whose presence we now stand 
 
 is always more ready to hear than we to
 
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 pray : nor does anything hide him from us 
 but the veil of our impure and earthly mind. 
 And since the preparations of even the willing 
 heart are not without him, let us inwardly 
 pray for the grace of a humble and holy 
 spirit : that for a little while we may be 
 alone with him; and, as his beloved Son 
 went up into the mountain to pray, so we 
 may rise above the haste and press of life, and 
 commune with him in spirit and in truth. 
 
 1T After a few moments of silence for inward prayer, the 
 Minister shall say the following Prayer ; all kneeling, 
 and the People responding with ' AMEN.' 
 
 A GOD, who art, and wast, and art to come, 
 before whose face the generations rise 
 and pass away ; age after age the living seek 
 thee, and find that of thy faithfulness there 
 is no end. Our fathers in their pilgrimage 
 walked by thy guidance, and rested on thy 
 compassion : still to their children be thou 
 the cloud by day, the fire by night. Where 
 but in thee have we a covert from the storm 
 or shadow from the heat of life ? In our
 
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 manifold temptations, thou alone knowest 
 and art ever nigh : in sorrow, thy pity 
 revives the fainting soul : in our prosperity 
 and ease, it is thy Spirit only that can wean 
 us from our pride and keep us low. Thou 
 sole Source of peace and righteousness ! take 
 now the veil from every heart ; and join us in 
 one communion with thy prophets and saints 
 who have trusted in thee, and were not 
 ashamed. Not of our worthiness, but of thy 
 tender mercy, hear our prayer. Amen. 
 
 H Then the Lord's Prayer, to be said by the People after 
 the Minister. 
 
 r\UE Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
 be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy 
 will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give 
 us this day our daily bread. And forgive us 
 our trespasses, as we forgive them that tres- 
 pass against us. And lead us not into temp- 
 tation ; but deliver us from evil : For thine is 
 the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
 for ever and ever. Amen.
 
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 Then shall be said or sung tlie following Hymn, called 
 TE DEUM LAUDAMUS ; all standing. 
 
 praise thee, God : we acknowledge 
 thee to be the Lord. 
 
 All the earth doth worship thee : the 
 Father everlasting. 
 
 To thee all Angels cry aloud : the Heavens, 
 and all the Powers therein. 
 
 To thee Cherubim and Seraphim : continu- 
 ally do cry, 
 
 Holy, Holy, Holy : Lord God of hosts ; 
 
 Heaven and Earth are full : of the Majesty 
 of thy Glory. 
 
 The glorious company of the Apostles: 
 praise thee. 
 
 The goodly fellowship of the Prophets: 
 praise thee. 
 
 The noble army of Martyrs : praise 
 thee. 
 
 The holy Church throughout all the world : 
 doth acknowledge thee, 
 
 The Father : of an infinite Majesty ; 
 
 Thy beloved, true : and glorified Son,
 
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 Who leadeth us to victory : over Sin and 
 Death ; 
 
 Thy Holy Spirit also : the Comforter, 
 
 Which maketh us sons : by the Spirit of 
 adoption. 
 
 We therefore pray thee, help thy servants : 
 whom thou hast redeemed in thy boundless 
 love. 
 
 Make them to be numbered with thy saints : 
 in glory everlasting. 
 
 Lord, save thy people, and bless thy 
 heritage : govern them, and lift them up for 
 ever. 
 
 Day by day we magnify thee: and we 
 worship thy name ever, world without end. 
 
 Vouchsafe, Lord : to keep us this day 
 without sin. 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy 
 upon us. 
 
 Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as 
 our trust is in thee. 
 
 Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me 
 never be confounded.
 
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 1T Or the following Canticle: 
 
 JVJAEVELLOUS things of the Lord our 
 God : have we heard and our fathers 
 have told us. 
 
 Eepeat to their children his ancient praise : 
 that the generations may set their hope in 
 God. 
 
 They that trust in the Lord shall be as his 
 holy hill : which cannot be removed ; 
 
 As the mountains are round about Jerusa- f] 
 lem : so the Lord encompasseth them for ever. 
 
 The secret of the Lord is with them that ^ 
 fear him : in the time of trouble he hideth 
 them in his pavilion. 
 
 In the day-time he leadeth them with a 
 cloud : and in the night with a light of fire. 
 
 Though they fall, they shall not be utterly Uj 
 cast down : for the Lord upholdeth them with 
 his arm. 
 
 They shall not be afraid of evil tidings : for 
 their times are in his hands. 
 
 Because their heart is not haughty, nor 
 their eyes lofty : and they are quiet as a 
 weaned child;
 
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 Therefore he lifteth them up : and girdeth 
 them with might, though they know it not. 
 
 Commit thy way unto the Lord, wait 
 patiently for him : and thou shalt never be 
 forsaken ; 
 
 He will draw thee out of the dark waters : 
 and show thee the path of life. 
 
 Who is among you that feareth the Lord : 
 yet walketh in darkness and hath no light ? 
 
 Let him surely trust in the Lord : and stay 
 upon his God. 
 
 Lift up your eyes to the heavens : and look 
 upon the earth beneath ; 
 
 The heavens shall vanish away like smoke : 
 and the earth shall wax old like a garment ; 
 
 And they that dwell therein : shall die in 
 like manner ; 
 
 But the salvation of the Lord shall be for 
 ever : and his righteousness shall not fail. 
 
 To the Only Holy, the First and the 
 Last : be thanksgiving and praise ; 
 
 From all kindreds and tongues on earth : 
 and the voices of saints in heaven. Amen.
 
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 ^T Then shall be read the FIRST LESSON, taken out of the 
 
 Old Testament. 
 IT After that, shall be said or sung the folloiving Canticle : 
 
 CEEK ye the word of the Lord and read : 
 his thoughts are not as our thoughts. 
 
 Strengthen ye the weak hands : and con- 
 firm the feeble knees ; 
 
 Say to them that are of fearful heart : Be 
 strong ; fear not ; 
 
 Behold your God will bring deliverance : 
 he will come and save you. 
 
 Then shall the eyes of the blind be 
 opened : and the ears of the deaf shall be 
 unstopped. 
 
 Then shall the lame leap as the hart : and 
 the tongue of the dumb shall sing. 
 
 In the wilderness shall waters break out : 
 and streams in a thirsty land ; 
 
 The solitary place shall be glad : and the 
 desert shall blossom as the rose. 
 
 And a highway shall be there : the way 
 of holiness ; 
 
 To the meek it shall be a path of light : 
 and the wayfaring man shall not err therein.
 
 Ill 
 Come, walk in his word: with songs of 
 
 joy; 
 
 And sorrow and sighing : shall flee away. 
 
 Glory be to God most High: the ever- 
 blessed Father ; 
 
 Who is, and was, and shall be : world 
 without end. Amen. 
 
 If Or the following Canticle; 
 
 pLORIOUS things of thee are spoken: 
 V Jerusalem, city of our God. 
 
 Of thee it shall be said, Here were the 
 prophets born: here the most High was 
 known ; 
 
 Look on the mountain of his holiness : a 
 light and joy to the whole earth ; 
 
 Mark well her towers, and consider her 
 bulwarks : that ye may tell it to generations 
 to come. 
 
 Zion, that bringest good tidings : lift 
 up thy voice to every age ; 
 
 Let the watchmen cry from thy palaces : 
 Behold your God ! '
 
 112 
 
 As a banner from thy walls, an ensign 
 from afar : is the testimony of Israel. 
 
 For darkness covered the earth: and 
 gross darkness the people ; 
 
 But the Lord arose as a light upon thee : 
 and his glory was seen upon thee ; 
 
 Till the Gentiles came to thy light : and 
 thy walls were called Salvation, and thy 
 gates Praise. 
 
 We will remember the days of old : the 
 years of the right-hand of the most High ; 
 
 We will meditate on all his work: and 
 write his law upon our hearts. 
 
 Lord, thou art a God that doest won- 
 ders : thou hast declared thyself among the 
 people. 
 
 Thy way is in the sanctuary : who is so 
 great a God as our God ? 
 
 Glory be to God most High: the ever- 
 blessed Father ; 
 
 Who is, and was, and shall be : world 
 without end. Amen.
 
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 11 Then shall be read the SECOND LESSON, taken out of the 
 New Testament. 
 
 11 After that, shall be said or sung the following Canticle : 
 
 CING no more the song of Moses : lift on 
 high the song of the Lamb ; 
 
 For the former things have passed away : 
 and heaven and earth have become new. 
 
 Jerusalem, Jerusalem : thy children 
 refused to be gathered ; 
 
 But a Zion of heavenly pattern descends : 
 whose builder and maker is God. 
 
 The tabernacle of God is with men : 
 he dwelleth not in temples made with 
 hands. 
 
 The temple of our holy Jerusalem: are 
 the Lord God himself and the Lamb ; 
 
 They are the light that lighten it : though 
 sun and moon should fail. 
 
 All day its gates are open : and no night 
 shuts the way of mercy. 
 
 Come to the river of God in the midst : to 
 him that is athirst he giveth of its living 
 waters freely.
 
 114 
 
 Come to the tree of life : whose leaves are 
 for the healing of the nations. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord that draweth nigh : 
 and openeth deep things of the Spirit to 
 them that love him ; 
 
 And calleth the kingdoms of this world : 
 to be the kingdoms of our God and of his 
 Christ. 
 
 Now unto the God of grace : for the might 
 of his Spirit and the love of Christ ; 
 
 Be glory in the Church throughout all 
 ages : world without end. Amen. 
 
 r 
 
 Then the Minister shall say the following Prayers ; all 
 kneeling, and the People responding with AMEN.' 
 
 TJOLY Lord God ; how can we lift up our 
 face, and make mention of thy loving- 
 kindness ? for thy praise is only our abase- 
 ment, and the greatness of thy mercy is the 
 measure of our guilt. Yet turn us not back 
 from thy presence. j^Look upon us accord- 
 ing to our deep need, not our poor deserv- 
 ings. Lift off the burden of our many sins,
 
 115 
 
 and revive the contrite that fly to thee. 
 When thou art nigh, we are weary of our 
 selfish desires, our faithless cares, our un- 
 resisted temptations : wasted moments, and 
 bitter words, and vain ambitions rise up in 
 judgment against us : we lay at thy feet 
 with shame the vows we have not kept, and 
 the sorrows we have not sanctified. No 
 secret thing is hid from thee. / Thou knowest 
 the spirit we are of. Chasten us with thy 
 rebuke, seek us with thy pity, recall us by 
 thy grace, ere we are quite estranged from 
 thee. Let the saving word, once heard on 
 earth, be renewed from heaven, ' Your sins 
 are forgiven ; go in peace.' Amen. 
 
 A GOD, our everlasting hope, who boldest 
 V us in life, and orderest our lot ; we ask 
 not for any prosperity that would tempt us 
 to forget thee. As disciples of one who had 
 not where to lay his head, may we freely 
 welcome the toils and sufferings of our 
 humanity, and seek only strength to glorify 
 
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 116 
 
 the cross thou layest on us. Every work of 
 our hand may we do unto thee ; in every 
 trouble, trace some lights of thine ; and let 
 no blessing fall on dry and thankless hearts. 
 Redeeming the time, may we fill every 
 waking hour with faithful duty and well- 
 ordered affections, as the sacrifice which 
 thou hast provided. Strip us, Lord, of 
 every proud thought ; fill us with patient 
 tenderness for others, seeing that we also 
 are in the same case before thee ; and make 
 us ready to help, and quick to forgive. And 
 then, fix every grace, compose every fear, by 
 a steady trust in thine eternal realities, be- 
 hind the changes of time and the delusions 
 of men. Thou art our Eock: we rest on 
 thee. Amen. 
 
 A GOD, thou hast set us in the train of 
 ^ many martyrs and holy men ; and given 
 us, as author and finisher of our faith, one 
 who offered himself up a living and dying 
 sacrifice. We are not our own, but thine.
 
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 Freely may we crucify our shrinking will, 
 surrender ourselves to the uttermost claims 
 of thy Spirit, and seek no peace but in 
 harmony with thee. 
 
 IT In response to this the People sJiall say : 
 
 According to that gracious word, ' Peace I 
 leave with you ; my peace I give unto you ; 
 not as the world giveth, give I unto you.' 
 
 In Qwres and Places where they sing, here may follow 
 an Anthem or Hymn. 
 
 IT Then the following Prayers and Intercessions : 
 
 \ LMIGHTY Lord, of whose righteous will 
 all things are. and were created ; who 
 liftest the islands out of the deep, and pre- 
 parest not in vain the habitable world ; thou 
 hast gathered our people into a great nation, 
 and sent them to sow beside all waters, and 
 multiply sure dwellings on the earth. Deepen 
 the root of our life in everlasting righteous-
 
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 ness ; and let not the crown of our pride be 
 as a fading flower. Make us equal to our 
 high trusts ; reverent in the use of freedom, 
 just in the exercise of power, generous in 
 the protection of weakness. With all thy 
 blessings bless thy servant YtcmaiA, our 
 <Qeeen-; with all the members of the Eoyal 
 House. (^Fill kfer heart and theirs with 
 such loyalty to thee, that her people may 
 be exalted by their loyalty to hery To 
 our Legislators and Counsellors give insight 
 and faithfulness, that our laws may clearly 
 speak the right, and our Judges purely 
 interpret it. Let it be known among us how 
 thou hatest robbery for burnt-offering ; that 
 the gains of industry may be all upright, and 
 the use of wealth considerate. May wisdom 
 and knowledge be the stability of our times : 
 and our deepest trust be in thee, the Lord of 
 nations and the King of kings. Amen. 
 
 A THOU whose eye is over all the children 
 
 of men, and who hast called them, by 
 
 thy Prince of Peace, into a kingdom not of
 
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 this world ; send forth his spirit speedily into 
 the dark places of our guilt and woe, and arm 
 it with the piercing power of thy grace. May 
 it reach the heart of every oppressor, and 
 make arrogancy dumb before thee. Let it 
 still the noise of our strife and the tumult of 
 the people ; put to shame the false idols of 
 every mind ; carry faith to the doubting, hope 
 to the fearful, strength to the weak, light to 
 the mourner ; and more and more increase 
 the pure in heart who see their God. Com- 
 mit thy word, Lord, to the lips of faithful 
 men, or the free winds of thine invisible 
 Providence ; that soon the knowledge of thee 
 may cover the earth, as the waters cover the 
 channels of the deep. And so let thy king- 
 dom come, and thy will be done, on earth as 
 it is in heaven. Amen. 
 
 May the God of all grace, who hath called 
 you unto himself in Christ, perfect, establish, 
 strengthen you : and to him be the glory for 
 ever. Amen.
 
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 Or 
 
 VfOW the Lord of peace himself give you 
 peace always by all means. The Lord 
 be with you all. Amen. 2 Thess. iii. 16.
 
 PUBLIC SERVICE OF PRAYEE. 
 MORNING OE EVENING. 
 
 IT The Minister shall say one or more of the following 
 sentences, and then the address which comes after ; all 
 standing. 
 
 'PHE way of man is not in himself alone : it 
 is not in man that walketh to direct his 
 steps. Jer. x. 23. 
 
 Thoughts of peace, saith the Lord, do I 
 think towards you : ye shall go and pray unto 
 me, and I will hearken to you : ye shall seek 
 me, and find me when ye shall search for me 
 with your whole heart. Jer. xxix. 11-13. 
 
 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he 
 cause darkness, and before your feet shall 
 stumble on the dark mountain, and, while ye 
 are looking for light, he turn it into the 
 shadow of death. Jer. xiii. 16.
 
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 Let us search and try our ways, and turn 
 unto the Lord : let us lift up our heart with 
 our hands unto God in the heavens. Lam. iii. 
 40, 41. 
 
 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, 
 and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? 
 1 Cor. iii. 16. 
 
 The temple of God is holy : which temple 
 ye are. 1 Cor. iii. 17. 
 
 FjEARLY beloved brethren, God, in whom 
 we live and move and have our being, 
 never leaves us, day or night. But the very 
 nearness and custom of his presence hide him 
 from our infirm and sinful hearts ; and under 
 cover of this darkness, our inner discernment 
 becomes dim, temptations gain a shameful 
 power, and the good that is in us droops and 
 fades. To clear such blindness away, and 
 recover the pure wisdom of a Christian mind, 
 we are called to this day of remembrance and 
 this house of prayer. Entering here, there-
 
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 fore, we cross the threshold of eternal things, 
 and commune with the Father who seeth in 
 secret. Let us shake off the dust of transitory 
 care, and every disguise that can come 
 between us and God : and, remembering 
 whose disciples we are, come to the simpli- 
 city, though it should be also to the sorrows, 
 of Christ. 
 
 1T The Minister shall then say the following Prayer; all 
 kneeling, and the People responding with f AMEN.' 
 
 f\ GOD, Unsearchable ; why are we so 
 
 - blind to thee, who besettest us behind 
 and before ? In the daylight of thy con- 
 stant mercy, we scarcely lift our eye to the 
 infinite heaven whence it flows. Now screen 
 us with thy hand, Lord, that we may not 
 wait for the night of sorrow, but here, under 
 the shade of holy thought, may learn in 
 what a world we live. Here let us rest from 
 the weary shows of life, and converse with 
 thee, the Only True. And though thou re- 
 ceivest higher praise than ours, from natures 
 that know thee more and serve thee better,
 
 124 
 
 yet tune our spirits and join our voices with 
 theirs ; and unite us with the faithful and 
 saintly, there and here, in one light of faith, 
 one beauty of holiness, one repose on thee. 
 Amen. 
 
 1T Then tlie Lord's Prayer, to be said by the People after 
 the Minister. 
 
 AUK Father who art in heaven, Hallowed 
 be thy name. Thy kingdom come. 
 Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. 
 Give us this day our daily bread. And for- 
 give us our trespasses, as we forgive them 
 that trespass against us. And lead us not 
 into temptation ; but deliver us from evil : 
 For thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
 and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 IT Then shall be said or sung the following Canticle; 
 all standing. 
 
 T WAS glad when my companions said unto 
 
 me : Come, it is our holy day ; 
 Let us go into the house of the Lord : let 
 us take sweet counsel together ;
 
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 Let our feet stand within his gates : and 
 heart and voice give thanks unto him. 
 
 Blessed be the temple hallowed by his 
 name : pray for peace within its walls, 
 
 Peace to young and old that enter there : 
 peace to every soul abiding therein. 
 
 For friends' and brethren's sake I will 
 never cease to say : Peace be within thee ! 
 
 What though for Him who nlleth heaven 
 and earth : there can be no dwelling made 
 with hands ; 
 
 What though his way is in the deep, and 
 his knowledge too wonderful for us : and 
 before him we are as children that cannot 
 speak ; 
 
 Yet, touched by the altar's living glow: 
 we learn, as an infant, to lisp his name ; 
 
 And try the wings that beat for his refuge : 
 and flee as a bird to the mountain. 
 
 Lord, when we cry unto thee from the 
 deep : and wait for thee as they that wait for 
 the morning ; 
 
 Thou wilt have regard to our entreaty: 
 the sigh of the lowly thou wilt not despise.
 
 126 
 
 Not long, Lord, shall we feel after thee 
 in these courts below : not long wilt thou 
 hearken to these faltering lips. 
 
 Our fathers thou hast called to thy higher 
 praise : and gathered to their fathers must 
 all the children be. 
 
 Let the dead and living praise thee, 
 God above, below: let all the generations 
 praise thee. 
 
 Let the glorified company of the first- 
 born : whose names are in the book of life ; 
 
 Let angels in the height: praise thee, 
 who dwellest in the heavens ; 
 
 Let thy Church on earth praise thee : the 
 delight of whose Wisdom is in the children 
 of men. 
 
 House of the Lord's praise : Peace be 
 to them that love thee ! 
 
 If I forget thee: may my right-hand 
 forget its cunning! 
 
 To the Only Holy, the First and the Last : 
 be thanksgiving and praise ; 
 
 From all kindreds and tongues on earth : 
 and the voices of saints in heaven. Amen.
 
 127 
 
 IT Then shall "be read the FIRST LESSON, taken out qf the 
 Old Testament. 
 
 IF After that shall be said or sung the following Canticle : 
 
 DLESSED be the Lord God of ages: 
 who never ceaseth to draw more nigh. 
 
 His voice in the morning of the world was 
 heard from far : in the evening he speaketh 
 at the door, and entereth to abide with us 
 for ever. 
 
 Manifold are thy witnesses, God, and 
 the angels of thine invisible presence : else 
 had we never known thee. 
 
 How should man that is born as the wild- 
 ass's colt stretch his wisdom to thee : to 
 thee, save to thyself, Unsearchable ? 
 
 Though thou unsealest the light for all 
 that lives : and lookest through the doors of 
 the shadow of death ; 
 
 Though thou causest the day-spring to 
 know its place : and sayest to the sea, ' Here 
 shall thy proud waves be stayed ; ' 
 
 Though thou seest the end from the
 
 128 
 
 beginning : and weavest the ages as a work 
 upon the loom ; 
 
 Yet lo ! thou goest by us, and we see thee 
 not : thou passest on also, and we perceive 
 thee not. 
 
 For the days of man are passed, like 
 
 the swift ships : and his line reacheth not 
 
 to thee, Eternal ! 
 
 Till thou didst look for him upon the 
 
 earth, he was not : and when thou sayest, 
 
 ' Return,' he is no more. 
 But thy years are countless as the stars : 
 
 from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. 
 
 Hadst thou not remembered our low 
 estate : and bent to us with thy testimonies 
 from of old ; 
 
 We had been in darkness and the shadow 
 of death : and the light of thy countenance 
 had been hid. 
 
 But the firmament declareth thy glory: 
 the prophets proclaim thy judgments ; 
 
 The righteous wonder at thy law in their 
 heart : and the songs of Zion make melody 
 to thee.
 
 129 
 
 Lo ! these are a part of thy mercies : yet 
 how little a portion is heard of thee ! 
 
 Blessed be the dawn of thine everlasting 
 light : the fear of the Lord is the beginning 
 of wisdom. 
 
 Glory be to God most High : the ever- 
 blessed Father ; 
 
 Who is, and was, and shall be: world 
 without end. Amen. 
 
 IT Then shall be read the SECOND LESSON, taken out of the 
 New Testament. 
 
 11 After that, shall be said or sung the following Canticle : 
 
 T ! at length the True Light : light for 
 every man born into the world ; 
 
 Kindling the face of them that receive it : 
 till they become the sons of God. 
 
 Cease, blinding glories of the heavens : 
 which none could see and live ! 
 
 Cease, gross darkness of the earth : where 
 the righteous put forth their hands and fear !
 
 130 
 
 The veil between is taken away : and the 
 mingling day-spring comes ; 
 
 No longer is the dwelling of Eternal Life 
 too bright above : and the perishable world 
 too dark below. 
 
 The Son of God hath dwelt among us : full 
 of grace and truth ; 
 
 The Son of Man hath gone up on high : 
 made perfect through suffering for the holy 
 of holies. 
 
 He is our peace : giving us access by one 
 spirit to the Father ; 
 
 No more strangers and exiles : but fellow- 
 citizens with the saints, and of the household 
 of God. 
 
 Lord Almighty ! we had said of thee : 
 * Thy thoughts are not as our thoughts ; ' 
 
 But thou hast looked on us as with the 
 pity of a man : and raised us to think the 
 thoughts of God. 
 
 We had said, ' Our righteousness reacheth 
 not unto thee: or to the holy ones of thy 
 presence ; ' 
 
 But thou hast made one family, there and
 
 131 
 
 here: one living communion of seen and 
 unseen. 
 
 We had said, ' Thou layest men fast in 
 everlasting sleep : ' but lo ! they sleep into 
 everlasting waking. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God, that giveth 
 beauty for ashes : and the garment of praise 
 for the spirit of heaviness. 
 
 Now unto the God of grace : for the might 
 of his Spirit and the love of Christ ; 
 
 Be glory in the Church throughout all ages : 
 world without end. Amen. 
 
 IT Then the Minister shall say the following Prayers ; all 
 kneeling, and the People responding with ' AMEN.' 
 
 A GOD, ever blessed and holy ! none but the 
 Angels and thy Redeemed can serve thee 
 with a perfect joy. On us, as we look up to 
 the light of thy countenance, the shadows of 
 shameful remembrance fall : and to all thy 
 mercies we must still answer with a cry for 
 more. Called in our measure to be perfect as 
 
 K 2
 
 132 
 
 thou art perfect, we have been most unlike to 
 thee, and are not worthy to be deemed thy 
 children. /Thirsting with momentary desires, 
 we have forsaken the living springs of 
 heavenly wisdom, of which he that drinketh 
 shall never thirst again.) We have been slow 
 to the calls of affection, heedless of the duties, 
 hard under the sorrows, which are thy 
 gracious discipline ; yet are oppressed with 
 cares thou layest not on us, with ease thou 
 dost not permit, and wants thou wilt never 
 bless. Lord, regard our complaint : it is 
 only against our faithless hearts. We have 
 nothing to plead, and renounce our pride 
 before thee. Only leave us not to ourselves. 
 Visit us with the wrestlings of thy Spirit : and 
 lay on us the cross, if we may but grow into 
 the holiness, of Christ. Amen. 
 
 rTEENAL God, who committest to us the 
 
 swift and solemn trust of life ; since we 
 
 know not what a day may bring forth, but 
 
 only that the hour for serving thee is always
 
 133 
 
 present, may we wake to the instant claims 
 of thy holy will ; not waiting for to-morrow, 
 but yielding to-day. Lay to rest, by the 
 persuasion of thy Spirit, the resistance of our 
 passion, indolence, or fear. Consecrate with 
 thy presence the way our feet may go ; and 
 the humblest work will shine, and the 
 roughest places be made plain. Lift us 
 above unrighteous anger and mistrust into 
 faith and hope and charity, by a simple and 
 steadfast reliance on thy sure will : and so 
 may we be modest in our time of wealth, 
 patient under disappointment, ready for 
 danger, serene in death. In all things, draw 
 us to the mind of Christ, that thy lost image 
 may be traced again, and thou mayst own us 
 as at one with him and thee. Amen. 
 
 A GOD, who leadest us through seasons of 
 life to be partakers of thine eternity ; 
 the shadows of our evening hasten on. 
 Quicken us betimes : and spare us that sad 
 word, ' The harvest is past, the summer is
 
 134 
 
 ended, and we are not saved.' Anew we 
 dedicate ourselves to thee. We would ask 
 nothing, reserve nothing, for ourselves, save 
 only leave to go whither thou mayst guide, to 
 live not far from thee, and die into thy nearer 
 light. Content to accept the reproach of 
 truth and the self-denials of pure integrity, 
 we would take upon us the yoke of Christ, 
 whom it behoved to suffer ere he entered into 
 his glory. 
 
 IT In response to this the People shall say : 
 
 Even as he said to all, " If any man come 
 after me, let him deny himself, and take up 
 his cross daily, and follow me." 
 
 1f In Quires and Places where they sing, here may follow an 
 Anthem or Hymn. 
 
 1F Then the following Prayers and Intercessions : 
 
 T OBD of all, whose balance trieth the 
 
 nations, to lift up or to cast down ; thou 
 
 hast planted us, as a people, in quiet resting-
 
 135 
 
 places, and stretched out our branches over 
 the sea, and laid upon us a mighty trust. 
 Never through vain conceit may we be blind 
 to the unchanging conditions of thy blessing. 
 The world and its fulness are thine : our 
 portion thereof may we hold, not in wanton 
 self-will, but reverently, as of thee ; making 
 it the strong-hold of right, the refuge of the 
 oppressed, and the moderator of lawless 
 ambition. Crown thy servant VICTORIA, our 
 Queen, with every personal and princely 
 blessing. Higher than the eminence of her 
 station raise her by the graces of thy Spirit : 
 and may the glory of her rule be in the 
 simplicity of her obedience. Enrich the 
 members of her house with inward and out- 
 ward good. Make all who speak or act for 
 this nation true organs of thine equity, that 
 through their wisdom and faithfulness thou 
 mayst be our Lawgiver and Judge. And let 
 it be that, as with the people so with the 
 chiefs, as with the servant so with the master, 
 as with the buyer so with the seller, all may 
 know thee as weighing the path of the just ;
 
 136 
 
 that righteousness may be the girdle of our 
 power. Amen. 
 
 A GOD, who didst send thy word to speak in 
 the Prophets and live in thy Son ; and 
 appoint thy Church to be witness of divine 
 things in all the world ; revive the purity and 
 deepen the power of its testimony : and 
 through the din of earthly interests and the 
 storm of human passions, let it make the 
 still small voice of thy Spirit inly felt. 
 Nearer and nearer may thy kingdom come 
 from age to age ; meeting the face of the 
 young as a rising dawn, and brightening the 
 song of the old, ' Lord, now lettest thou thy 
 servant depart in peace.' Already let its light 
 abash our guilty negligence, and touch with 
 hope each secret sorrow of the earth. By 
 the cleansing spirit of thy Son, make this 
 world a fitting fore-court to that sanctuary 
 not made with hands, where our life is hid 
 with Christ in God. Amen.
 
 137 
 
 'THE Lord bless us and keep us : may he be 
 
 gracious unto us ; and give us peace now 
 
 and for evermore. Amen. Numb. vi. 24-26. 
 
 Or 
 
 AND now may the peace of God rule in 
 your hearts : and the word of Christ 
 dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Amen. 
 Col. iii. 15, 16.
 
 138 
 
 Collect for jHorning. 
 
 CTEENAL God, who hast neither dawn nor 
 evening, yet sendest us alternate mercies 
 of the darkness and the day ; there is no light 
 but thine, without, within. As thou liftest 
 the curtain of night from our abodes, take 
 also the veil from all our hearts. Eise with 
 thy morning upon our souls : quicken all our 
 labour and our prayer : and though all else 
 declines, let the noontide of thy grace and 
 peace remain. May we walk, while it is yet 
 day, in the steps of him who, with fewest 
 hours, finished thy divinest work. Amen. 
 
 Collect for turning. 
 
 A GOD, who faintest not, neither art weary ; 
 whose everlasting work is still fresh as 
 thy creative thought ; we bless thee for the 
 pity of night and sleep, giving us the rest 
 thou never needest. We would lie down 
 each evening in peace and thankfulness, and
 
 139 
 
 commit the folded hours to thee. But, 
 Lord, through toil and repose, save us from 
 any fatal slumber of the spirit : and keep us 
 through life to the holy vigils of love and 
 service, as they that watch for thy morning 
 of eternity. Amen. 
 
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