brought a vine to us from Judah: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it: Thou hast caused it to take deep root, and to fill our lands: The boughs thereof are like the cedars of God. Do not suffer its fences to be broken down, nor let the evil one lay it waste. Return, return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts, and behold and visit again thy vine, and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch thou hast made strong for thyself. Extend its boughs over the whole earth, that its leaves may be for the healing of all people: That nations yet undiscovered, and ages yet unborn, may rejoice in its shade!

"Father of all mercies, God of all grace! visit the sick and the afflicted. Let the sighs of the prisoner come up before thee: Look down with pity on the afflictions of the just; bend thine ear to the groans of the unhappy. We pray for the whole human race, the distressed and fallen family of man; once formed after thy image, destined to glory, honour, and immortality, but now defaced with guilt, debased with ignorance, subjected to slavery, and appointed unto death. Let them know Jesus, whom to know is eternal life. Sow the seeds of virtue and happiness every where. May the blood of Christ which was shed upon Mount Calvary, atone for a whole guilty world. May the rays of the Sun of righteousness dissipate as one vast cloud, the collected sins of humanity!

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May cruelty, bigotry, and wrath, be no more: May the rod of the oppressor be broken, and the sword of persecution sheathed. Come down as in the times of old, put on thy robe of vengeance, and deliver the innocent from the hands of the destroyer; may the benign genius of Christianity appear in the lives of all its professors, that the heart may be opened, that amiable virtue may appear again, that man may become a friend to man, and the earth resemble heaven.

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rable men who have abandoned themselves to wickedness and impiety. O most merciful God! give them not over to final reprobation: Cast them not off for ever. Pour down upon them the influences of thy Spirit, to melt their hearts of stone; to turn them unto the wisdom of the just, before the day of grace expire, and the gates of Heaven be shut, never to be opened again.

"May we, all of us this day depart from thy courts with deep and solemn impressions upon our minds, never to be effaced! Keep, O God, keep our feet from falling! With desiring eyes we look forward to the glory which is to be revealed: and we rejoice in the happy immortality of the redeemed from among men. And now what wait we for but thy blessing. Bless us, O our God, and be with us for ever and ever. Amen."

HYMN V.

1 HE hour of my departure's come;
I hear the voice that calls me home;

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At last, O Lord! let trouble cease,
And let thy servant die in peace.
2 The race appointed I have run;
The combat's o'er; the prize is won;
And now my witness is on high,
And now my record's in the sky.
S Not in mine innocence I trust;
I bow before thee in the dust;
And through my Saviour's blood alone
I look for mercy at thy throne.
4 I leave the world without a tear,
Save for the friends I held so dear;
To heal their sorrows, Lord, descend,
And to the friendless prove a friend.
5 I come, I come, at thy command,
I give my spirit to thy hand;

Stretch forth thine everlasting arms,
And shield me in the last alarms!

6 The hour of my departure's come,
I hear the voice that calls me home;
Now, O my God! let trouble cease,
Now let thy servant die in peace.

BLESSING.

May the love of God the Father, the grace of our "Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the fellowship and "communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you, and all "the people of God, henceforth and for evermore. "Amen."

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