I believe that I can do all things through Thee, if Thou wilt strengthen me.

I believe that none ever looked to Thee and were confounded, or called on Thy Name and were forsaken.

I believe that Thou hast called me by name and hast led me out, and that when Thou puttest me forth anywhere, Thou wilt not forsake me.

I believe that Thou wilt be a merciful and faithful High Priest to approach God on my behalf, to make reconciliation for my sins.

I believe that as far as the east is from the west, so far hast Thou removed my transgressions from me; that like as a father pitieth his children, so Thou pitiest me.

I believe that in all my affliction Thou art afflicted.

I believe that Thou wilt not suffer me to be tempted above that I am able to bear.

I believe that Thou wilt strengthen me for my special work, as Thou didst Thy servants in old times, Moses, Gideon, Samson, Elijah, and Jeremiah.

I believe that with Thee all things are possible, even to make me perfect.

I believe that the Holy Ghost is within me, pleading with me, ready to convince me of sin. I believe that Thou art now interceding for

me.

I believe that my whole life, and every event in it, is ordered by Thy most loving providence, to draw me to Thee, to make me flee to Thee, and abide in Thee.

I believe that Thou art most unwilling that I should perish, but art full of compassion and long-suffering towards me, that I may come to repentance, and be forgiven.

I believe that there is joy in heaven over me as I repent.

Lord, I know that Thou lovest me.

Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.
Lord, increase my faith.

I will gird myself and serve Thee!
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

Acts of Hope.

No. I.

LORD, in Thee is my hope

I desire, and pray, and purpose, to live for the future, not for the present.

I desire to look forward in my work to the coming of Thy Kingdom.

I desire to labour here, that I may grow to desire rest more and more.

I desire to look forward to rest for a while in Paradise with Thee, and then to rise again with my body to glorify Thee for ever in heaven.

I desire now to put my treasure in heaven, to send my affections very often, even now, to where Thou art ascended.

I desire to be so settled in the life of hope now, that earthly and transitory things may fail to affect and disturb me.

I hope now to advance in holiness, to forget those things which are behind, and to reach forward to those things which are before.

I believe I am sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, that I have received the earnest; I look to be filled with all the fulness of God.

I desire to be bold in my hope, to look high in humility, and obedience, and saintliness. I desire to follow Thee very closely.

I brace myself to the cross now, that I may be with Thee in Paradise.

I desire to drink of Thy cup now, that I may be a doorkeeper in Thy House hereafter.

O Lord, I cling to my hope, the hope of seeing Thee as Thou art.

O Lord, I thank Thee for my hope. Confirm it, strengthen it, deepen it, engross it. Lord, purify me, even as Thou art pure! Amen.

I

No. 2.

(Grounded upon the Articles of the Faith.)

I

KNOW that Thou, O GOD, art ONE. hope that with all Saints I may be one in Thee, as Thou, O Father, art in the Son, and the Son in Thee.

I know that Thou, O FATHER, art ALMIGHTY, able to do things impossible with men. I hope that Thou wilt make me holy. I hope that Thou, Who didst MAKE HEAVEN AND EARTH, ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, wilt bring to perfection the new heavens and the new earth, wilt make known to us more and more of Thy infinite creation, that we may the more glorify Thee herein.

I know that Thou, O LORD JESUS CHRIST, ONLY-BEGOTTEN of the Father, hast made me partaker of sonship with Thee. I hope that Thou, Who wert before all worlds, GOD, and LIGHT, and VERY GOD, wilt rule, and illumine, and fill my whole being; that the old man may utterly die out of me, and that I may be wholly Thine, and with Thee where Thou art.

I hope that Thou, BY WHOM ALL THINGS WERE MADE, wilt show me Thy glory, for which all creation exists.

I hope that Thou, Who didst COME DOWN

FROM HEAVEN FOR US MEN, AND FOR OUR SALVATION, to be the second Adam, and WAST INCARNATE BY THE HOLY GHOST OF THE VIRGIN MARY, wilt accomplish Thy work in me, and wilt save me for ever, as born again in Thee.

I hope that as Thou wast MADE MAN, so Thy Godhead will never again be separated from man, or from that Life which Thou hast given us by the Spirit.

I hope that by THY BEING CRUCIFIED FOR US UNDER PONTIUS PILATE my sins are atoned for and blotted out, and that the old man in me is crucified with Thee. I hope to be partaker with Thee in the fruits of Thy SUFFERING, to be made perfect in patience, humility, and submission.

I hope that the life which I now live is not the life which I inherited from Adam, to which I was buried in Thy BURIAL, but Thy life living in me.

I hope in the power of Thy RISING AGAIN, that like as Thou wast raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so I am intended, and helped, and empowered to walk in newness of life. I hope that we who died with Thee shall also live with Thee, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.

I welcome the earnest of future glory in Thy ASCENSION. I hope in Thy constant intercession for me AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. I hope to see Thee in the highest place of heavenly honour.

I hope not to be ashamed before Thee when Thou shalt COME AGAIN WITH GLORY TO JUDGE BOTH THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. I hope that Thou wilt then be my Advocate to silence the accuser. I hope that Thou wilt then cast all my

sins behind Thy back. I hope that Thou wilt number me among the Saints.

I hope that Thy KINGDOM, WHICH WILL HAVE NO END, will come quickly; that we may be delivered from the miseries of this sinful world; that we may reign with Thee for ever. I hope that all my life here is a training for unknown and inconceivable dignity of loving service for ever.

And I hope in the love and power of THE HOLY GHOST, THE LORD, WHO GIVEST LIFE to all living; Who gave me life a second time in my baptism; Who hast given it more abundantly many a time since in the Eucharists of which I have partaken. I hope that Thou wilt nourish and strengthen that life in me, and in my dear friends, and in all Christian men, until it utterly extinguishes in us the natural life.

I hope always to WORSHIP AND GLORIFY Thee with awful reverence. I hope never to grieve Thee, or weary Thee, or provoke Thee. I hope that Thou wilt continue to love me, and wilt never leave me.

I hope that I, with all Saints, may ever receive, and obey, and love, in childlike submission and grateful trust, the words which Thou hast SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS, under the Law and the Gospel.

I hope that Thou wilt continue to work in the ordinances of the ONE CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH, making holiness to overflow in her and from her, to the recovery of those in error, heresy, and schism, to the conversion of the thoughtless, and the vicious, and the heathen. I hope for her triumph, for her appearance without spot or blemish when the Lamb shall return to take His Bride to Him

self for ever. I hope that I may be found