habitable earth. May the nations everywhere know, love, and obey Thee, the only living and true God, through Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. Be mindful, O Thou God of all compassion, of all that are in poverty, sorrow, trouble, or distress of any kind. I would sympathize with all under their several afflictions, and humbly recommend their different circumstances to Thee the Lord our God, praying that every afflictive dispensation of thy providence may be sanctified to them, and that in a short time Thou wouldest remove their sicknesses, and put an end to their sorrows.

Hear my prayer, most gracious God!strengthen my weakness--supply my deficiencies —absolve me from my sins, and fulfil the desires of my heart as far as Thou seest it to be good for me. In Thee, O thou God of all benevolence! are all my hopes, both as to this and a future state. To Thee, therefore, my humble request is, that Thou wouldst guide me, by thy counsel, in all the varying circumstances of life, crown my righteous endeavours with thy blessing through the whole of my future days, and, finally, bring me to thy kingdom of glory above.

I ask all in the name and as the disciple of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour, for whom I would be for ever thankful, and in the spirit of whose gospel I would ascribe, as being most justly due, unto Thee the only living and true God-the father of all in heaven and on earth-the fulness of all power, and the glory of infinite perfection, for ever. Amen.

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O ALMIGHTY and eternal God! under a deep sense of thy adorable excellencies and perfections, and of my own insufficiency and insignificance, I would now adore, with all possible veneration, thine incomprehensible majesty and thy infinite perfections. To Thee I owe all that I am ----all that I know-all that I possess, and all I can hope for. All the powers, capacities, and abilities of my mind-all the advantages of my nature-all my connections in social life-all the different relations in which I stand to Thee, to my fellow-creatures, and to every thing around me proceed from thy sovereign goodness, and bear testimony to thy adorable benevolence and compassion.

Thy mercies and benefits surround me on every side; they loudly call upon me to celebrate thy praise, and to give thanks unto Thee, O Thou most high.

Thou hast placed me in an enlightened part of the world, where I am surrounded with fellow-creatures, who know Thee as their God and father, from whom I derive

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daily assistances and services, and with whom I may enjoy the sweets of union and friendship, the advantages and pleasures of social intercourse, and the delightful endearments of domestic life.

In that station, amidst thy immense empire which thou hast ordered and assigned me, I have never been overlooked or forgotten by Thee from the first moment of my existence. Thou hast been continually renewing thy mercies and thy favours, notwithstanding the inattention, ingratitude, and disobedience of which I have been guilty. Thou hast continued to me innumerable proofs of thy loving kindness and compassion, unworthy and sinful as I have been in thy sight. Thou hast acted to me as a God of unbounded goodness, who causest the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendest rain on the just and on the unjust.

For every instance in which I have acted perversely and disobediently, I now desire to be truly penitent, and to humble my. self before Thee, confessing and lamenting my folly in having neglected to avail myself of the opportunities I have enjoyed for improving in the knowledge of the gospel. of Jesus Christ, and the inany advantages

I have been blessed with under the christian dispensation. I earnestly pray for thy pardon and forgiveness of every transgression of thy righteous and holy laws with which I have been chargeable.

May it please Thee, my God, to hear my humble supplication for grace to help in time to come. Bless me in all my future endeavours to enlighten my mind→to inform my understanding to improve my heart and to establish my feet in the way of thy commandments. I desire to increase, day by day, in religious knowledge and virtuous acquirements, until my heart becomes truly and entirely thine, and my views and desires are directed to Thee, my God, in all the habits of an uniform course of holy and cheerful obedience.

I implore thy aid to enable me to cultivate a sincere and tender affection for all my brethren of mankind. Hear my fervent prayers on their behalf. I desire to intercede before Thee, O Thou universal parent! for all those who are at a distance as well as those who are near me. I would include them all in the prayers I now offer up unto Thee, for the promotion of their best interests, both temporal and spiritual. 1 would rejoice in every privilege and