God, that the purposes of the Saviour's mission may be fulfilled, till everywhere there shall be Glory to thee in the highest, peace on earth, and good-will toward men. Amen.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

Behold God is great; we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the

I shall not return.

way whence

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly

away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our

hearts unto wisdom.

O satisfy our souls with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

We are strangers and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow.

This very instability of human things, O God, is in the perfections of thy decrees, that by it we may be compelled to seek after solid and unchangeable good. - St. Gregory.

Thou art my hope, O Lord God, thou art my trust.

Blessed be the Lord, for he hath showed me his marvellous kindness.

EVER-KIND, ever-loving, but ever-holy God,

thine unmeasured mercy, how acknowledge with due humility our unworthiness and sin! At every station upon our journey of life, as we pause and look over the past, we see the crowded tokens of thy loving-kindness, thy tender care, thy watchful providence, and we recall also abundant memories

of our errors, our short-comings, and our transgressions. We would, O Father, return thee thanks for all that we have hitherto enjoyed, and for every opportunity which thou hast granted us for becoming or for doing good. For the supply of our daily needs, and for all that thou hast added of the comforts and joys of life, for all that has charmed the eye and the ear, for the treasures of knowledge and wisdom, for the affections that bind us together, and for the hope given through our Lord Jesus, that those who love him and love each other shall have eternal communion and fellowship with each other and with him; for these, and for every other gift of thy providence and of thy grace, we would give thee thanks, and we pray thee that thy good spirit may help us show our gratitude by obedience to thy commands.

Holy Father, forgive us the sins of the past, and if thou dost allow us to see, still longer, days upon earth, help us to spend them in thy service. May the year that is coming find us watchful to learn what is thy will, and to keep thy commandments. Help us to be helpers of each other in all that is good, and to be helpers of all men as we have opportunity; and if thou shouldst spare us to see many years upon earth, may each one find us more watchful over ourselves, more resigned to thy will, more zealous in thy service, more observant of opportunities to do good. Amen.

X.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.

Spared to see another year,
Let thy blessing meet us here ;
Come, thy dying work revive,
Bid thy drooping garden thrive ;
Sun of righteousness, arise!

Warm our hearts, and bless our eyes;

Let our prayer thy mercy move,

Make this year a time of love.

OLNEY'S HYMNS.

Jesus spake also this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none.

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I came seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none; cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground.

And he, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it and dung it.

And if it bear fruit, well; and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days; thy years are throughout all generations.

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

If every year we would root out one vice, we should sooner become perfect men. À Kempis.

Alas! length of days doth more often make our sins the greater than our lives the better.—À Kempis.

O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

See, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time; and if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles.

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and all envies, and all evil speakings;

Having your conversation honest, honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God.

MORNING.

THOU who art our Dwelling-place in all generations, we rejoice in the light of this new day, and with grateful and devout minds we would acknowledge thy love in all the vicissitudes of our earthly lot, whether it be in the changing year, the procession of the seasons, summer and winter, day and night, or in our lives as we feel the motion of thy providence in time and events. O God, we thank thee, we bless thee, for that gentle influence and happy inclination of human life, by which our increasing days bring into our souls a deeper sense of the great spiritual realities, by which the glaring light of this world becomes softened, and the powers