Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

Make now friends to thyself by honoring the saints of God, and imitating their actions, that when thou failest in this short life, they may receive thee into everlasting habitations. À Kempis.

God will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life.

Eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

MORNING.

TERNAL and ever-merciful God, our heavenly Father, thou art the father of light and the source of blessedness. Day unto day uttereth speech of thee. Each new morning calls on us to praise thee and give thanks for thy goodness. We commit ourselves to thee, to be guided, upheld, and saved by thee this day. Lead us, O our Father, in thy way, though it be a way we have not known, and we will rejoice and trust in thee, assured that no evil will befall us while thou art our guardian and guide. Let no sin have dominion over us, to bring guilt and sorrow into our hearts. O thou God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we praise thee that through him thou hast brought life and immortality to light, and hast begotten us again by his resurrection from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.

May we have that unfeigned faith in him by which we shall from death unto life. He is our way pass and thy truth; and by our hearty belief that thou didst send him into the world, may he become the life of our souls. Suffer us not to hold the truth in unrighteousness; knowing that our Lord, who once died for sin, now liveth in heaven, may we die to sin that we may live to him and to thee. By patient continuance in well-doing may we seek for honor, glory, and immortality, and finally attain to everlasting life. May Christ be formed in us the hope of glory. May our affections be set on things above, and our life be hid with Christ in God.

We rejoice, O God, in the works of thy hands. May we ever see thee in nature. May we also know thee in the testimony of our own consciences, so that in the knowledge of thee, and of Jesus, whom thou didst send, we may have eternal life.

Help us by thy grace this day to honor thee in keeping thy commandments. May we not love thee in word alone, but in deed and in truth, and so may we love each other and all around us, seeking not our own, but each the other's good. Bless and keep our friends. Let thy favor be upon our land, and thy truth come to all nations.

Forgive

May we

us our sins, and help us to forsake them. also forgive, as we hope to be forgiven. And unto Him who loved us, and gave himself for us, and through Him to thee, be glory, honor, and dominion ascribed now and evermore. Amen.

EVENING.

GOD, Fountain of all life, we thank thee for thy good gift of the waters of life through another day. We bless thee that we live and move and have our being in thee. The world presses hard upon us, and we might faint and die if we were alone; but we are not alone, for the Father is with us. Not one moment in all our life is passed without thee; thou wilt never leave us.

No place is without thee; thou wilt never forsake us. Thou hast made us for life, thou hast kept us in life. When our last night in this world shall close about us, thy love will fold us to sleep, and when we awake in the life to come, we shall be still with thee, for in thy love we shall live forever. Our sun shall be turned into darkness, this earth shall pass away from our sight, the body shall return to the dust as it was, but the Sun that lights the sun shall shine forever. The hand in which the earth is but a speck of dust abides. Thou art the same; thy years shall not fail; and we are the sons of God. Not our will, but thy will made us; not our will, but thine, has kept us this day. O God, our Father, help us to a deeper trust in the life everlasting, from the lesson of this one day. May we feel that this love which is now ever shall be; this robe of the flesh is thy gift to thy child, and when it is worn out thou wilt clothe him again; this

work of life is the work thou hast given us to do, and when it is done thou wilt give us more; this love, that makes all our life so glad, flows out of the deep fountain of God, for God is love, and we shall love forever. O, set these lessons deep in our hearts; help us to feel how, day by day, we see some dim shadow of the eternal day that will break upon us at the last. May the Gospel of thy Son, the whisper of thy Spirit, unite to make our faith in the life to come solid and clear; then shall we be glad when thou shalt call us, and enter into thy glory in Jesus Christ. Amen.

XXXIII.

DWELL THOU WITH US.

O, make our house Thy sanctuary !
Come in to us, a friendly guest,

And in our circle ever tarry ;

Then shall we be forever blest,

And thou, an inmate of these walls,
Transfigure them to royal halls.

REV. C. T. BROOKS, from the German.

The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my

footstool what house will ye build me? saith the Lord; or what is the place of my rest?

Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But will God, in very deed, dwell with men upon the earth? Behold heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee!

Jesus said, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul: enlarge thou it, that thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous, repair thou it; it has that within which must offend thine eye; but who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save thee? - St. Augustine.

If

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ye love me, keep my commandments.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.

And this is his commandment: that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.

And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.

And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

MORNING.

UR Father who art in heaven, and who art

OUR

not far from any one of us, thy children on earth, when we awake we are still with thee. Help