the affections and thoughts of the heart, or in any inclination of the will. Upon all such as are destroying themselves by wilful sin, He looks down with a divine pity; but they have withdrawn themselves from the range of His sympathy. This can only be Iwith those who are in sorrow under sin; that is, with penitents. It is in the suffering of those that would be cleansed and made holy that He partakes.

O Holy and Gracious High Priest, give me so deep a penitence, so hearty a sorrow for sin, that I may indeed have a claim upon Thy sympathy, and, resting in it, may be forgiven and comforted. None can know as Thou knowest my feebleness and frailty, remember Thou that I am but dust; Thou Who hast said that the Spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak, give more energy and firmness to my will, more strength and resolution to the flesh. Look upon my inward struggles and temptations, and have pity on me.

With all His awful Holiness, there is something that greatly draws us to CHRIST in His tender Love. Though His Eyes "be as a flame of fire," yet is He "meek and lowly of heart," knowing and feeling for all our miseries, and of a truth in Him we shall find rest for our souls.

In this sympathy is true peace, deep con

solation, calm unspeakable. This will keep our hearts waking, recall us when we wander, refresh us when we are weak. Whatsoever be our outward lot,—whether we be high or low, esteemed or outcast, held in honour or in scorn, this one thing is enough. What more can they desire who have the sympathy of CHRIST? Let us so live as not to forfeit that sympathy. It is ours only so long as we strive and pray to be made like Him. If we turn again to evil, or to the world, we sever ourselves from Him-the dominion of any sinful habit will fearfully estrange us from His Presence. And besides positive sins, love of the world will shut us out from His sympathy altogether. Love of the world casts out the Love of CHRIST. If, in spite of His word and warning, His Life and Cross, we will live on in this fallen world without fear or self-denial, as if it were not fallen; if we will love it, live in it and for it, accept its flatteries and favours, then we must die with it. The follies, excitements, false happiness of the world, bring bitter looking back, burning consciousness of inconsistency and falling away; and all these hide His Presence from our souls. With them He has no sympathy: but only with the humble, bruised, and contrite; with them that forsake all, that they may find Him, and follow

Him whithersoever He goeth; in darkness and in light, in life and in death, counting all things loss, that they may "win CHRIST, and be found of Him," in the morning of the Resurrection.

O Merciful High Priest, Thou art ever touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Look upon mine, many and grievous, and heal me.

O suffering JESUS, Who didst cry aloud to Thy FATHER, "My GOD, My GOD, look upon Me,"

Look upon me, and turn all my pains to peace and healing.

O JESUS, Who madest Thyself as a worm and no man, a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people,

Look upon me, and turn all my trials and humiliations to my good, and heal me.

O Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief, visit and relieve me.

O SAVIOUR, Who hast borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,

Bear mine, even mine, O LORD.

O SAVIOUR, full of heaviness,

Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death.

O LORD my GOD, Thou art to me whatsoever is good,-who am I that I should dare speak to Thee? I am Thy poorest,

meanest servant; yet do Thou remember me, O LORD, because I am nothing, I have nothing, and I can do nothing. Thou alone art Good, Just, and Holy; Thou canst do all things, Thou accomplishest all things, Thou fillest all things, only the sinner Thou leavest empty. Remember Thy mercies, and fill my heart with Thy Grace; Thou wilt not that Thy works should be void and in vain. How can I bear up in this miserable life, unless Thou strengthen me with Thy mercy and grace? Turn not Thy Face away from me; delay not Thy visitation; withdraw not Thy consolation, lest my soul become as a dry and thirsty land for lack of Thee. Teach me, O LORD, to do Thy Will; teach me to live worthily and humbly in Thy Sight; for Thou art my Wisdom, Thou alone dost know me, and feel with and for me; leave me not, O GOD of my salvation. Amen.

O JESU, Most Gracious SAVIOUR, Who camest into the world to save sinners; Who Thyself barest our griefs, and carriedst our sorrows, Thyself tempted in all things like as we are, yet without sin, that Thou mightest be touched with the feeling of our temptations; Thou seest how infirm and weak we are, and that of ourselves we cannot resist the evil or pursue the good, so inclined to evil are the thoughts and ima

ginations of our hearts. O SAVIOUR, save Thou us; give strength, bring help; Thy grace is all-powerful, we can do all in Thee, if Thou do but strengthen us. Our hearts fail before temptation, but Thou, O Blessed SAVIOUR, knowest all our trials, and with the temptation Thou hast promised us a way to escape. Make us ready and strong to drink of Thy Cup, doubting not, but stedfastly believing, that Thou art both able and willing to turn all things to good for those that love Thee. Lo, we are in Thy Hand; do with us as Thou wilt. wilt, Thou canst make us whole. O LORD, and we shall be healed.

If Thou

Heal us,

Save us,

and we shall be saved.

Amen.

Our FATHER, &c.

PSALM XCI. Qui habitat.

Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High: shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say unto the LORD, Thou art my Hope, and my strong Hold: my GOD, in Him will I trust.

For He shall deliver thee from the snare 'of the hunter: and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall defend thee under His wings, and thou shalt be safe under His feathers: