Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by STANFORD & SWORDS, in the Clerks' Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Dis trict of New-York.

Hobart Press:

JOHN R. M'GOWN, PRINTER.

No. 57, Ann-street, N. Y.

The excellent and affecting office for the Holy Communion, prescribed by the Church, is the best guide to his devotions at the altar that the communicant can possibly have, and renders almost unnecessary all other aid. It should be the business of the communicant seriously to attend to this service, and heartily and sincerely to join in it. As he goes up towards the chancel, let him secretly use the follow ing ejaculations:

In the multitude of thy mercies, O Lord, do I now approach thine altar.

I will pay thee my vows now in the presence of all thy people.

Thou art my God, and will bless thee; thou art my God, and I will exalt thee.

God is the Lord, by whom we receive light; bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

When the minister reads the sentences of the Offer tory, let the commun can offer up after each sen tence, the short ojacu ation annexed.