I desire to submit to thy directions; to refer to thee my actions, and to resign into thine hands all my interests in time and eternity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

After the Death of a Brother or Sister. SOVEREIGN Disposer of all events! I come into thy presence with the voice of grief; I come to thee as my Father, and wilt thou hear me as thy child. Thou hast taken one from me, in whom I was comforted, who shared with me the joys of early life, and who experienced with me the kindness of affectionate parents. But, O God, I desire to bow in humble resignation to thine appointment, and read the solemn lesson thou wouldst teach me. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Give me that composure of spirit, which shall enable me to receive the consolations of religion: for I well know how dark soever this night of affliction seems, if thou sayest,-Let there be light, there shall be light. Gracious Monitor, prepare me to follow this departed friend of my bosom. O may I be

made better by thy dealings with me. Soothe my sorrows by the comforting words of Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life. O, like him, may I bear what thy wisdom shall see fit to ordain; and in all my afflictions, howeversevere, may I be able to say, Not my will, O God, but thine be done. Now unto thee, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who died that we might live, and who wept, that we might rejoice, be glory forever. Amen.

After the Death of a Child.

O THOU, who hast appointed unto all once to die, and who alone knowest what is really best for me! I fly to thee, beseeching thee to sanctify unto me the bereavement, which fills my heart with grief. Thou hast united me to the objects of my innocent affection, by the tenderest ties; and I bless thee that thou wast pleased to give me my departed child, and to bestow on me the satisfactions and joys, which a parent feels. Thou hast by the arrow of death, taken away from me this beloved being; and I would bow with resignation to thy sovereign appointment.

I commit its body to the grave, and its soul to thy infinite mercy and I rejoice and thank thee that our Lord Jesus Christ has declared, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Compassionate Father! console my sorrows, I pray thee; and prevent me from despising thy chastenings, or fainting when rebuked of thee. Teach me more perfectly to do and suffer thy will, and to draw instruction, from the adversities I experience. May I willingly give up my child from my arms below, into the arms of a better Parent above. Affect me with just convictions of the vanity of human life, and the uncertainty of earthly comforts. Dispose me to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling, and to give the most serious attention to the religious instruction and improvement of those whom thou hast preserved to me. Instead of attempting fully to explain the unsearchable mysteries of thy government, may my heart rest assured, that all things shall work together for good to them that love thee; and may I steadily look forward to the resurrection of the just, and the reunion of those who die in the Lord, through our exalted Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

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Prayer by Sir W. Jones.

ETERNAL, incomprehensible Mind, who, by thy boundless power, before time began, createdst innumerable worlds for thy glory and innumerable orders of beings for their happiness; which thine infinite goodness prompted thee to desire, and thy infinite wisdom enabled thee to know! We thy creatures vanish into nothing, before thy supreme Majesty; we hourly feel our weakness; we daily bewail our vices; we continually acknowledge our folly. Thee only we adore with awful veneration; thee we thank with the most fervent zeal; thee we praise with astonishment and rapture; to thy power we humbly submit; of thy goodness we devoutly implore protection; on thy wisdom we firmly and cheerfully rely. We do but open our eyes, and instantly we perceive thy divine existence; we do but exert our reason, and in a moment we discover thy divine attributes; but our eyes could not behold thy splendour, nor could our minds comprehend thy divine essence; we see thee only through thy stupendous and all-perfect works; we know thee only by that ray of sacred light, which it has pleased thee to reveal through Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, if creatures too ignorant to con

ceive, and too depraved to pursue the means of their own happiness, may, without presumption, express their wants to their Creator, let us humbly supplicate thee to remove from us that evil, which thou hast permitted for a time to exist, that the ultimate good of all may be complete; and to secure us from that vice, which thou sufferest to spread snares around us, that the triumph of virtue may be more conspicuous. Irradiate our minds with all useful truth; instil into our hearts a spirit of general benevolence; give understanding to the foolish; meekness to the proud; temperance to the dissolute; fortitude to the feeblehearted; hope to the desponding; faith to the unbelieving; diligence to the slothful; patience to those who are in pain, and thy celestial aid to those who are in danger :-comfort the afflicted; relieve the distressed; supply the hungry with salutary food; and the thirsty with a plenteous stream. Impute not our doubts to indifference, nor our slowness of belief to hardness of heart; but be indulgent to our imperfect nature; and supply our imperfections by thy heavenly favour. Suffer not, we anxiously pray, suffer not oppression to prevail over innocence, nor the might of the avenger over the weakness of the just. Whenever we address thee in our retirement from the vanities of the world, if our