LESS the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name.

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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.
The Lord is my shepherd: I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still

waters.

He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For Thou art with me: Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.

Thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.

Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

ATHER, in the spirit of the children of Thy love, we would feel Thy presence

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with us now. Each day Thou hast gone out and come in with us. Every morning has brought a blessing; every evening has told us of Thy care. We would always walk in the light of Thy love. We would be sure that Thou wilt ever help us, to keep us from wrong and evil, and to lead us in the ways of goodness and truth. As we give ourselves into Thy kind care, may we be content to feel that Thy hand is holding us up, and Thine arm supporting us always. Thus may we go forward through our life on earth. Growing ever more and more in grace and in goodness, may we be ready to enter upon the blessed life in heaven, when Thou shalt call us hence. AMEN.

VIII. HYMN.

Third Service.

THE ETERNAL GOODNESS.

I. INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES.

THAT men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men !

The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.

Thy kingdom, O God, is an everlasting kingdom; and Thy dominion endureth through all generations.

II. METRICAL CHANT.

I. Fa-ther and Friend, Thy light, Thy love, Beam-ing through all Thy works we see;

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Thy glo-ry gilds the heav'ns a - bove, And all the earth is full of Thee.

2 We know not in what hallow'd part
Of the wide heav'ns Thy throne may be ;
But this we know, - that where Thou art,
Strength, wisdom, goodness, dwell
with Thee.

3 Thy children shall not faint nor fear,

Sustain'd by this delightful thought,Since Thou, their God, art everywhere, They cannot be where Thou art

not.

4 Then from our lips shall ever ring
Glad strains in honor of our King;
To Thee, our Father, will we sing
An endless Alleluia. AMEN.

III. RESPONSIVE READING.

HOU, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and

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plenteous in mercy and truth.

Show us Thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation.

Whom have I in heaven but Thee?

And there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.

My flesh and my heart fail;

But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive;

And plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon Thee.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For his merciful kindness is great toward us.

IV. GLORIA.

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Glory be to the Father, who

is in heav'n,

the High and Holy

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. A

To Him that by wisdom made the heavens; that stretched out the earth above the waters.

ALL SING.For His mercy endureth forever.

To Him that made great lights, the sun to rule by day; the moon and stars to rule by night.

Who made His people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; who brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and saveth them that cry unto Him in their trouble.

Who remembereth us in our low estate; who is our sun and our shield.

For His mercy endureth forever.

VI. PRAYER.

THOU, who art the Father of all spirits and the giver of all good, in thanks beyond what words can speak, we would here adore Thee. Thou art the Eternal Goodness. In this faith do we rest. Over all that is and all that can be, extends Thy conquering love. From Thy spirit which sustains us we cannot go. From Thy presence which surrounds us we cannot flee. Thou turnest us back from our sins; Thou callest us home from our wanderings. We see the wrong which is around us; we lament the evil which is in our hearts. But we know that Thou art good, and we cannot measure Thy power or Thy love. We see the pain and loss which abound in the world; but we also hear the words of blessing which Jesus spoke. We think of him as he lived on the earth, when he went about doing good. We hear his prayer of forgiveness upon the cruel cross. O Thou who art his God and our God, help us to lean our hearts on Thee. May we be sure that no harm can ever come from Thee to us; that we, Thy children, can never go beyond the reach of Thy love and Thy care. And so trusting Thee, loving Thee, and doing Thy will, may we be indeed Thine for evermore. AMEN.

VII. HYMN.