and charities of life, for friendship and brotherly love, for the fellowship of home, and the communion of heaven,

We bless and thank Thee, and praise Thy worthy name.

For the Star that rose over Bethlehem, to become the Sun of Righteousness in the firmament of Thy power: For the Man of Sorrows, crowned with thorns, and crucified when darkness was over all the earth: For the Lord of Life, lighting up the depths of death, and crowned with glory and with honor,

We praise, and bless, and adore Thee, God the Father Almighty.

BLESSED and only POTENTATE! Thou who dwellest in the midst of light: Thou who dwellest also in the meek and lowly heart: Let Thy glory break in upon our souls, and make us children of light, and of the day. May our last days be our best days, and our closing hours our brightest hours. The longer we live, may we live the more to Thy praise, and come with thanksgiving into Thy heavenly kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Hymn. The Sermon. Prayer. Hymn. Benediction.

ND now, brethren, I commend you to GOD, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified. To GOD only wise be glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever. Amen.

Order of Public Worship.

FOURTH.

After a Hymn, the Congregation will rise, and join the Minister in the following, in verses alternately. Another

Selection may be substituted.

GREAT and marvellous are thy works, LORD GOD

Almighty! Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Saints!

Who shall not fear Thee, O LORD, and glorify Thy name! for Thou only art holy.

Thou art the blessed and only Potentate, the KING of kings and LORD of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: To whom and glory everlasting.

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Blessing, and thanksgiving, and honor, be unto our GOD, world without end.

I will praise Thee with my whole heart: I will worship in Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for Thy loving-kindness and Thy truth.

I will praise Thee, O LORD my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify Thy name for evermore.

All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, and shall glorify Thy name: For Thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art God alone.

Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things; and blessed be His glorious name for

ever.

The LORD bless us, and keep us:

The LORD make His face shine upon us, and be gracious unto us:

The LORD lift up His countenance upon us, and give us peace.

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[LET US PRAY.]

ATHER OF ALL, who through Thy holy word hast granted unto us the light of life: May the Scriptures be ever so opened to our thoughts, that our hearts may burn within us; and when it is toward evening, and the day of time is far spent, may Christ continue to abide with us by faith, that the night may be radiant with the promise of a morning without clouds.

¶ All unite in the Lord's Prayer.

Reading the Scriptures. A Hymn. After which, one or more of the following Sentences may introduce the Exhortation.

WHO

Isaiah 1. 10; lx. 20,

HO is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his GoD....The LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Luke i. 78, 79. Isa. lx. 1.

THROUGH the tender mercy of our GoD the day-spring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace....Wherefore He saith unto Zion, Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

James i. 17. Matt. v. 16.

Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning....Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Habakkuk iii. 17, 18.

ALTHOUGH the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the

The Exhortation.

CHRIST

HRISTIAN FRIENDS AND BRETHREN: Whoso shall fervently pray without ceasing, will sincerely rejoice evermore. And though we should at all times feel and acknowledge our need, and celebrate the great goodness and mercy of our Father, yet ought we chiefly so to do when we assemble, as now, to partake the blessing of Christian communion and worship.

Wherefore I beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me, with an humble and contrite spirit, to the throne of the heavenly grace.

[LET US PRAY.]

HOU, LORD, hast set our iniquities before

THOU

Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance. Yet Thou knowest our frame: Thou rememberest that we are dust.

Save us, we beseech Thee, from the infirmity which fears that Thou wilt cast off for ever and be favorable no more. Inspire us with a living trust in Thy perpetual goodness; yet do Thou also shine into the hiding-places of memory, that every one of us may sincerely pray, God be merciful to me a sinner.

From blindness of mind and hardness of heart, from faithless prayer and prayerless faith, from envy, and from all uncharitable

ness,

Good Lord, deliver us.

From the tyranny of passion, and the lust of pride; from the adversity that doubts Thee, and the prosperity that denies Thee; from weariness of life, and from the bitterness of death,

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Good Lord, deliver us.

In the day of affliction, when our pilgrimage is under a cloud,—in the night of bereavement, when the voices of loved ones have gone away into silence, and in the hour of our own departure,

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Mercifully remember us, O Lord.

In the day of strength, when life is in bloom and the heart is glad,-in the time of sorrow, when our path is dark and hope is weary,— and in the solemn hour of death, Help us, O Lord, to remember THEE.

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Supplication and Intercession.

LORD our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the Universe, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon the earth: Most heartily we beseech Thee with Thy favor to bless the President of the United States, and all others in authority; and so replenish them with heavenly gifts that they may always incline to Thy will, and walk in Thy holy way. Amen.

ALMIGHTY AND EVERLASTING GOD, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift: Send down. upon all ministers of religion, and upon the congregations committed to their charge, the healthful spirit of Thy grace; and that they may truly please Thee, pour upon them the continual dew of Thy blessing.

And grant, blessed LORD, that all who profess and call themselves Christians, may be led