murmuring, ungracious temper, all unfaithfulness: but give, Lord, to all I undertake, thy divine blessing.

Shouldest thou send me joy and contentment, then, Lord, preserve me from falling into folly, vanity, envy, emulation, sinful lusts, excess, prodigality; and let me enjoy all thy goodness with wise and temperate seriousness. Should vexation, trouble, unpleasant occurrence await me, let not my soul be alarmed or disturbed. Send me humility in happiness: 'and in trouble grant me patience and firmness.

In my dealings with my fellow-creatures let me never offend, but help me to set an example of good to all. May I always keep a watch over my heart, my tongue, and over my peculiar weaknesses, and become ever firmer, and more and more exercised in all virtues.

Lord, this is my appointed work, enable me to perform it. May I be enabled to

look back on this day with pleasure and satisfaction, through thy strength strengthening me.

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the hard pressure of sorrow or pain. Be gracious, Lord, to all poor, sick, sorrowing, afflicted. Have mercy on all living, dying - all that are perishing. Have mercy on all who are dear to me: preserve me and mine, whether waking, sleeping, living or dying. Thus far thou hast led me, and thou wilt not forsake me. То this hour hast thou, on the rough sea of life, borne me up, over the rocks that threatened, and the gulph that menaced; O still direct my course, till I shall have arrived, at length, safe in the peaceful haven of eternal rest in a better world.

TUESDAY MORNING.

"Lead us not into temptation."

THIS life is a state of discipline and probation. I am not what I can and ought to be, but on this earth I am as in a school, to be trained for eternity.

My powers indeed are very feeble, and I am on all sides surrounded by temptation and difficulty. Sin insinuates itself into the heart readily, by means of the eye, the ear, and every sense. I see many evil examples in the world, which are capable of an injurious influence over me, and I bear within my breast a powerful and treacherous enemy-my own heart.

If I am not constantly watchful, in soberness and stillness, to allow myself to be guided by the great laws of the Holy Spirit, the senses will soon exert a powerful dominion over me. I am ever disposed to attribute to the things of the world a false merit. Happiness even may prove a snare, and how readily may I be led from injuries to wrath, from success to covetousness, from reputation and flattery to pride, from ease to voluptuousness from want to despair, from abundance to prodigality! And how many enemies to my well-being, both for time and eternity, may I have unseen, unknown to myself, whose art and wickedness is greater than I, perhaps, at present can conceive!

Thus circumstanced, to whom can I fly for refuge? It would be anguish, were I left to myself; for so little can I depend on my own power, that in every encounter with sin, I should sink; and if not with