BENEDICTIONS.

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HE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore.

Amen.

HE Lord bless you, and keep you. The

Throne his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore. Amen.

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HE God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory

and dominion for ever and ever.

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Amen.

HE God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant; Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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HE Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; And the Blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen.

PRAYERS

FOR THE CHILDREN AND FOR SUN

DAY SCHOOLS.

GOD, our heavenly Father, we are very

weak and sinful. Make us sorry for all the wrong things that we have done, and help us to grow better every day. Keep us from all meanness and selfishness, and from hurting others by word or deed. Help us gladly to obey our parents and teachers, make us ready to give up our own way, and teach us to be patient and kind and loving to all about us. Make us painstaking and cheerful in doing every little duty. Help us to be more reverent and attentive in Church and Sunday School. May we be always pure and truthful in thought and word, and learn day by day to know thee better and to love thee more.

Bless our Church and our Sunday School, and all who belong to them, and bring us all into thy everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, the Father

of Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named; Who art more willing to give thy Holy Spirit to them that ask thee, than earthly parents are to give good gifts to their children; Send down upon us the healthful Spirit of thy grace. Prosper, we humbly beseech thee, all the means employed to train up these children in thy fear and service. Dispose them from the heart to believe in thee, the Lord their God, and to worship and serve thee, their Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. Keep them from all the dangers and temptations of this evil world, and sanctify them wholly in their souls and bodies. May they never be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ

crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue his faithful soldiers and servants unto their life's end; through the same, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

LORD Jesus, Lord of love and grace, who hast said: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; Embrace, we beseech thee, these children, in thine arms of mercy, and bless them. Enable them daily to grow in stature, after the pattern which thou hast shown, to grow also in wisdom and in favour with God and man. May they learn to serve thee of very love, hating the sin which thou hatest, and loving the things which thou commandest; and so make them, blessed Lord, the members of thy flock, that they may ever know and follow the voice of the true Shepherd of their souls, and remain in the number of thy faithful children, who art, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

GRACIOUS Saviour, who lovedst little chil

dren, and didst take them into thy holy arms and bless them, bless now, we pray thee, the children of this school. May they grow up in thy fear and love. May they live ever as members of Christ, children of God, and heirs of heaven. May they give their hearts to thee, and remember their Creator in the days of their youth; that so they may be thine forever, and at length enter the heavenly inheritance which thou hast purchased for them; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God evermore. Amen.

ALMIGHTY Father, who hast promised that

they who early seek thy heavenly wisdom shall early find it, and find it more precious than all the treasures of this world; Send down on these thy children the grace and blessing of thy

Holy Spirit; that they, being trained up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, may choose and love thy way, and depart from it no more forever; and that when thou makest up thy jewels in thy glorious kingdom these children may be there and may be thine; all which we ask for the sake of thy Holy Child Jesus, our only Saviour and Redeemer.

Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, be pleased, we humbly be

seech thee, to move the hearts of many of thy children to seek the work of ministering to thee in holy things. We pray that some may be found among our own number eager to carry the blessed tidings of thy love to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Clothe thou them now in the days of their youth with thy whole armour. Make them children of the light and of the day. And, when the time shall come for them to go forth bearing the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit, do thou go with them, Heavenly Father, that they may fight the good fight, and be proved the faithful of thy Christ. We ask it in his name and for his sake. Amen.

CONFIRM, O Lord, we pray thee, the hearts

of thy children, and strengthen them with the power of thy grace; that they may both be devout in prayer to thee, and sincere in love for each other; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

LMIGHTY and most merciful Father, on

any day

thee to seek a blessing. We are weak but thou art almighty; we are ignorant, but thou canst teach us all things; we are sinful, but thou hast promised to forgive us for thy dear Son's sake. We come in loving confidence and humble trust, knowing that thou art gentle and pitiful, full of tenderness and compassion, and ever ready

to do for all thy children more than they can ask or think. We pray for light upon our daily path. Help us to see the way wherein we ought to walk, and give us strength to follow it. May we love thy Holy Word, and search in it for wisdom as for hid treasures. Make us obedient and truthful, reverent and pure in heart. Teach us to shun all bad examples, and to love every honest way. Wherever we are, whatever we do, may we never forget that thou art close at hand, and that thy judgment is true. Guide us this day unto a better knowledge of thy will. May we all be taught of thee, and gladly listen to thy voice, so that when thou shalt call us hence, we may enter with joy and not with fear into the rest that remaineth for the people of God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

GREAT and gracious God, do Thou look down with mercy and love on this school; if thou be with us, none can be against us. Bless us each and all in our several stations, and enable us humbly and conscientiously to fulfil those duties which thou hast entrusted to us, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, serving thee. Do thou make us to live in unity one with another, and in peace with all men. May we seek the good of one another rather than of ourselves, remembering that we are not our own, but bought with a price. O God, may thy name be hallowed, not only with our lips, but in our lives, and thy will be done with all our heart and with all our strength. So shall thy blessing be with us for Christ's sake. Amen.

LORD most High, who art our life, our strength and joy, our ever present helper and defender, we come to confess our sins before thee, and to pray for what we need. Give us the mind which was in Christ Jesus our Lord. Make us gentle and obedient, loving, brave, and true. Keep our childhood holy, and our youth pure and