GRA RANT thy grace to thy servants whose lives are being united before Thee, that they may be true helpers to each other, bearing one another's burdens, having compassion on each other's infirmities, walking together in faith and holiness and love. May their house be one in which Thou dost love to dwell, in which they talk with Thee as with an own familiar friend. Supply their temporal wants as may be best for them, and make them a blessing to others. Fill their lives with love of the best things in thy world, and may they rejoice in each other and in Thee all the days of their life, whether in prosperity or adversity, in health or in sickness,—may they always find in Thee their comfort and strength and their abiding peace. Amen. OD the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve, and keep you. The Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you, and fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace; that ye máy so live together in this life, and that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting. Amen. GIVER of awo gladness; and chiefly we would re IVER of all gladness, freely we have received, member that he that cometh to Thee shall never hunger, and he that believeth shall never thirst. Amen. ... THE HE lines have fallen unto us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage in our country, in our city and so in this hour of feasting, we turn to Thee. Show us, Lord, what thy plan is for us in the way of simpler living-variety without luxury, plenty without excess. Amen. UNTO TO him who, through the breaking of bread, brought us close unto God, be glory and honor now and for ever. Amen. TE EACH us to feed our spirits as regularly as our bodies, Lord, we pray, that we may do this as oft as we eat or drink in remembrance of Thee. Therefore Lord, let not this meal-time bring food for the body alone, but for our souls as well. Amen. We do this, as oft as we eat and drink, OU UR food and our comforts come so regularly, Lord, that we resent delay or withdrawal. Keep us well recollected, for not only here, O generous Lord, have we far more than our need, but in all our lives. Amen. ORD, be glad of us. LOR In his Spirit we ask grace. With Him whose table-talk was inspiration, Lord, we sit down. Teach us to feed our spirits as regularly as our bodies, Lord. Lord, we beseech Thee, "give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful" and we show forth our gratitude, "not only with our lips but in our lives." We bless thee for thine inestimable love. We do this, as oft as we eat or drink, in remembrance of Thee. Grant that we may not miss the best in life. We thank Thee for a world all doors. Maker of sun-light, Give us soul-light. God of the one idea, maker of a world with one work in it, we give thanks for love, and ask for service. Into our lives we, greatly daring, invite Thee, Lord. AY we, our Father, think of the dead as possess ing a more splendid equipment for a larger life of diviner service, than was possible to them on earth— a life in which we shall in due time join them if we are counted worthy of their fellowship in the life eternal. WE Amen. E remember to-day, those our sisters who have met with us in times past, and "are now departed this life in thy faith and fear, beseeching Thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy Heavenly Kingdom. Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ sake, our only Mediator and Advocate." Amen. TH HOU hast visited us through the angel of death, taking from us the familiar face of one who belonged in our group, opening to her the gates of eternal life. May we see beyond the sorrow of this hour, into the glory that is beyond, that we may know Thou art the One whom we would see, the Father of all thy children, and that when we go out of this world it is to go home, to the welcome and love of our Father's house. We would go to Thee with clean hands and a pure heart. Cleanse us, we pray, from all that would make us afraid before Thee. Make us glad to think of the day that will bring thy message to us also to come home. Amen. WE E remember with reverent love our friends and fellow-workers who rest from their labor and now behold Thee face to face. . . . May the life of our heroic dead still be a living force among us, through the characters they have moulded and through thy Holy Spirit which binds in one the Church militant and the Church triumphant. Thy peace be upon this city, and upon all who love the Lord Jesus. In his name we pray. Amen. W the God of peace, that brought again from our NOW the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make us perfect in every good work to do his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. MOST merciful Father, who hast blessed the labors of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the earth, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for thy bounty; beseeching Thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us, that our land may still yield her increase to thy glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ETERNAL God, we pray the memories eager to recall the way of thy providence. We have been led by thy grace to the close of the year. Thou hast brought us over many varied roads, in light and shadow, in health and in sickness, in success and in apparent defeat; thy care has never left us and thy love has never slept. 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