For Parents and Relatives.

I pray Thee for those who are near and dear to me [here insert the names of parents, husband or wife, children or relatives] that Thou wilt grant to them [here insert special supplications] Thy mercy, health of soul and body, that they may love Thee with all their strength, and with their love accomplish Thy will.

For the Church.

I pray Thee for Thy Holy Church militant (especially for that Branch of the Church in which it has pleased Thee to place me), keep her from backslidings and errors, from laxity and superstition, from coldness and lukewarmness, from dead faith and dead works; Let her be all-glorious within, by the indwelling of the HOLY GHOST; Let her walls be salvation, and her gates praise.

For the Clergy.

I beseech Thee to give Thine abundant grace to all the Clergy of Thy Church, to all Bishops (especially the Bishop of this Diocese), to all Priests and Deacons (especially those who do service in this Church). Make them holy, righteous, temperate, meek, pure, zealous, loving. Grant, O LORD, that by a holy life and a true belief, they may glorify Thee, the Lover of souls, and after a plentiful conversion of sinners from the error of their ways, they may shine like the stars in glory; where Thou, with the FATHER and the HOLY GHOST, livest and reignest, one GOD, for ever. Amen.

For the Parish.

O FATHER of mercies and GOD of all Grace, in whose hands are the hearts of men, pour down upon this Parish the healthful dew of Thy blessing. Give power and success to the ministrations of Thy Word and Sacraments, and prosper every design consistent with Thy will for the spiritual and temporal welfare of our brethren. Bless our Schools: bless all who teach

and all who learn. Bless all who are engaged in the work of visiting; may they carry comfort and counsel and help to many a home. Make the rich liberal, and the poor patient; relieve and succour the sick and afflicted, and give thankfulness to the prosperous and happy. Grant that we may all be knit together in the bonds of peace and unity, and finally meet in Thine eternal kingdom, through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

For Missionaries, etc.

O Thou FATHER of the Souls of all men, be present with those who make known Thy Holy Name in other lands, and grant that those who have lived in the darkness of error may by their ministry be brought to the knowledge of Thee. Grant that from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof Thy Name may be great among the heathen, and that in every place a pure oblation may be sacrificed and offered to that Thy Holy Name. Amen.

For the Faithful Departed.

Lastly, remember, O LORD, I pray Thee, those who have gone before me in Thy faith and fear, and grant that I and they may have our perfect consummation and bliss where sorrow and sighing are banished away, and the light of Thy Countenance shines for ever.

And grant that the end of our life may be Christian and acceptable unto Thee. Gather us, O LORD, under the feet of Thine elect, when Thou wilt and as Thou wilt, only without shame and sin, through Thine only begotten SON JESUS CHRIST, my LORD and Saviour. Amen.

Additional Devotions, &c., will be found in Appendix VI.

FOURTH DIVISION OF THE SERVICE.

The Fourth Division of the Service contains in itself the chief elements of worship; viz., Acts of Adoration, Oblation, and Praise or Thanksgiving.

1. The Lord's Prayer (embodying now the Doxology, “For Thine," &c.) is said as a Thanksgiving to Him Who has "given us this day our daily Bread."

The second of the two Collects which follow is also a Thanksgiving:

Almighty and everliving God," etc.

This prayer will also be found in the "Short Service of Thanksgiving," on page 70.

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2. The Prayer of Oblation includes (1) the offering of " Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving;" i.e. the HOLY EUCHARIST; and by the merits and death of JESUS CHRIST there pleaded, we beseech GOD to grant that we and all CHRIST'S Holy Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of His Passion. (2) "We offer and present unto GOD ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto God." (See Rom. xii. 1.) This solemn offering of ourselves to God is a most important act, which you should never omit.

3. The Gloria in Excelsis, sometimes called the "Angelic Hymn," or the "Great Doxology," is a glorious act in which we join with the angelic host in praising, blessing, adoring, glorifying, and giving thanks to GOD the FATHER Almighty, Who "gave His only begotten SON, to the end that all that believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Then (like S. John in Rev. v.) our spiritual eye sees the "Lamb 58

FOURTH DIVISION OF THE SERVICE.

1. THE LORD'S PRAYER.

2. THE SECOND OBLATION, OR PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING. 3. THE GLORIA.

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T Then shall the Priest say the Lord's Prayer, the people repeating after him every Petition.

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thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

as it had been slain" before the Throne of God. We pray Him to have mercy upon us," "to receive our prayer; " but our prayer is soon lost in adoration—" For Thou only art holy; Thou only art the LORD; Thou only, O CHRIST, with the HOLY GHOST, art most high in the glory of GOD the FATHER. Amen.

[On the Illustration, see page 89.]

FIFTH DIVISION OF THE SERVICE.

The last Division of the Service contains only The Blessing. Let us try to realize that the LORD JESUS is giving us His Blessing, and that soon, like the Disciples at the Transfiguration, we must go down from the mountain into the midst of the sin and sorrow of the world, leaving the Master in the mountain.

For a few moments longer we stand, like the Disciples after the Ascension, "gazing up into Heaven." May we go away, like them, "with great joy" in our hearts; may we prove to all men by our lives that we "have been with JESUS;" and may we ever live as men and women who expect that "this same JESUS, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven."