Lamenting all our sinful life
Before thy mercy gate:

A gate Thou openest wide to those
That do lament their sin;

Shut not the gate against us, Lord,
But let us enter in.

And call us not to strict account,
How we have lived here;
For then we know full well, O Lord,
How vile we shall appear.

So come we to thy mercy gate,
Where mercy doth abound,
That for the healing of our sin,
Thy mercy may be found.

O LORD, the great and dreadful God,
Keeping the covenant and mercy

To them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments!

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity,

And have done wickedly, and have rebelled, Even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses,

Though we have rebelled against Him;

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God,

To walk in His laws, which He set before us.-Daniel ix. 4, 9.

JESUS! cast a look on me ;

Give me sweet simplícity;
Poor in spirit may I grow,
Seeking only Thee to know!

Wean me from my selfish heart,
Bid each wicked thought depart;
Take away my thirst of praise,
Turn me from the scorner's ways.

What would feed my busy pride,
May I ever cast aside

;

Let my will to thine submit,
Give me what Thou seest fit.

Unto Thee I come for peace ;
Bid my hasty tempers cease;
Leaning on thy loving breast,

There soul shall find sweet rest!
my

56.

Take up thy Cross.

Ir thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, It is better for thee to enter the kingdom of God with one eye

Than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire,

Where their worm dieth not,

And the fire is not quenched,

For every one shall be salted with fire.

Mark ix. 47.

Epist. 1 Thess. iv. 1-8. Gosp. Matt. xv. 21-28. Matins, Gen. xxvii.

57.

Evensong, Gen. xxxiv.

Watch and pray.

(7's.)

CHILD of Christian Church and land,

Thou receivest at God's hand,

Greater light than prophets knew,

Higher work than theirs to do.

Thou hast heard and heard again
Truths which kings have sought in vain,
Thou hast been to Jesus given,

Thou hast been baptized for heaven.

Loiter not in faithless sleep,

Work his work-and true watch keep
O'er thy soul in hope and fear,
'Twas thy soul He bought so dear.

Watch against the sins of youth,
Guard by prayer and strive by truth,

Weak and childlike though thou be,
Jesus Christ is strength for thee.

58.

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT.

Live according as you pray.

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;

Forasmuch as ye know

That ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold,

From your vain conversation,

Received by tradition from your fathers,
But with the precious blood of Christ,
As of a Lamb without blemish and without
spot.-1 Peter i. 17—19.

THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT.

Epistle, Ephes. v. 1-14. Gospel, Luke xi. 14-28. Matins, Gen. xxxix.

59.

Evensong, Gen. xlii.

We ought always to pray. THE Lord is good and true, A never failing friend ; Unwearied is his care of you, He loveth to the end.

(S. M.)

Let not the tempter steal
Your hearts from God away,
Let not your thankless bosoms feel
'Tis weariness to pray.

But worship o'er and o'er,
Desiring to be fed ;

To say the prayers we've said before,
Is like our daily bread.

The race you have begun,
Will last each day you live;
You are the Lord's; for Him you run,
He only strength can give.

60. The eye of God is upon us.

The preparations of the heart in man
And the answer of the tongue is from the
Lord.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes,

But the Lord weigheth the spirits.

Commit thy works unto the Lord,
And thy thoughts shall be established.

Prov. xvi. 1-3.

FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT.

Epistle, Gal. iv. 21-31. Gospel, John vi. 1-14.

Matins, Gen. xliii.

Evensong, Gen. xlv.

61.

The Thirty-second Psalm.

(S. M.)

O BLESSED is the man

Whose trespass is forgiven,