brought individually to a living fellowship with thy church universal. Take thou away all our pride, all our party spirit,-- and all our prejudices; and unite our hearts in thy fear, and in thy love; that we may be a strong phalanx in the army of the Lord; and that whatsoever may be our respective names in the church of Christ, that we may enjoy the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; and may be engaged in the same warfare under the unfurled banner of the same unconquered Captain;—even the prince of peace—the immortal Son of Jesse-His well-beloved SonGod!- our only Mediator and Redeemer — Jesus Christ: that we may all be enabled to follow him in the regeneration and in the newness of life.

Thou knowest, O Lord God! that the powers of darkness are arraigned in these days against the light of thy truth. We beseech thee to grant that all thine enemies may be for ever scattered; and that the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness may arise on this dark benighted world, until it shall be filled with light; until the whole world shall be full of thy glory, and a knowledge of thee, and of thy Son, Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.

Now we confess, O Lord God! that the work is thine, and that the power is thine alone: and under a deep feeling that unto us belongeth shame and confusion of face, we acknowledge that to thee alone, through thine

own well-beloved Son, belongeth the praisethe glory--and the dominion-for ever.

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able us therefore, we pray thee, to unite with the songs of saints, and of angels; and in great self-abasement to say,- Hallelujah !— Hallelujah!--for thou, O Lord God! omnipotent reigneth.

PRAYER IV.

5TH MONTH 6, 1832.

O THOU glorious God over all!-thou who art the author of every blessing, temporal and spiritual—thou, from whom we have received all our comforts, all our bodily powers, and all our mental faculties - thou, who hast endowed us with the noble faculty of reason, in thy great mercy and goodness hast loaded us with benefits of every kind : thou knowest that in the fall we are degenerate and corrupt; and even our best faculties perverted from thee; in the sense whereof, we are broken and humbled; and do acknowledge that we are not worthy even of the least of thy mercies; and that it is only of thy sovereign favour, and of thine unmerited compassion, that we are not consumed.

And now, we beseech thee, thou supreme author of all good! to bestow on us, yea on every soul present, the pure heavenly gift of a saving faith in thy beloved Son-our only Saviour and Redeemer-our Lord Jesus Christ. And grant, we beseech thee, that we may individually know this faith to work in us by love; that the love of the Saviour may expel the love of the world from our bosoms:

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and that we may be made willing to resign ourselves to the government and guidance in all things of thy Holy Spirit;-of thy pure anointing which does lead into all truth; and for which unutterably precious gift, we are bowed in reverent gratitude. Blot out all our iniquities, we reverently pray thee, in the blood of the great atoning; and clothe us in those white robes of a Saviour's righteousness, which are so white, as no fuller on earth can whiten them. And grant, that through the operation of thy mighty power, we may be invested also with the characters of thy beloved Son; and may be clothed in the garments of humility-meekness-purity-integrity; and ever bound in love to thee, and to our fellow men.

And now, O Lord! permit us, in an especial manner, to commend unto thee our beloved Brother, who hath now borne testimony to thy truth, as it is in Jesus; and who hath come over the mighty ocean to visit us in gospel love. O! that thou wouldest be pleased to be with him in all his works, and in all his words; and to go before him from place to place, and to be his rear-guard. Anoint and re-anoint him for thy service; and clothe him in the blessed authority of thy Truth: and when he is brought into the baptism of suffering again and again, O be thou with him even as it was with the children of Israel, when one like unto the Son of God was with them in the furnace; and they came out from it without * Charles Osborne, from Indiana.

one hair of their heads singed, and without the smell of fire passing on their garments. Be thou pleased, O gracious Lord! if it seem meet in thy sight, to give him both his natural and his spiritual life for a prey; and eventually to permit him his return to his own home, and to the bosom of his beloved family, in the abundant clothing of peace.

And grant, O Lord God! that we, thy poor unworthy children, may all be permitted in the end to meet in one glorious fold-even in the haven of perfect rest,-where we may enjoy together an eternal sabbath of peace; and be for ever united in the acknowledgment, that thou art worthy, O God! and that worthy is the Lamb that was slain, for ever and for evermore, of all majesty, dominion, glory, thanksgiving and praise.