God in Christ Jesus?" Can we, then, love him with too much ardour? or serve him with too much fidelity? How earnestly should we say, "we most humbly beseech thee, O Heavenly Father, so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end! Amen."

In imitation of our Lord, who after the institution of this ordinance sang a hymn with his disciples, we now join in singing or saying, that sublime hymn, "the GLORIA IN EXCELSIS; or, some proper hymn from the selection." No comment that I could make would serve to give to those who are in the habit of using it, a more vivid conception of the inimitable beauties of this divine song. It would be like an attempt to improve the tints of the rainbow with earthly colours. I therefore abandon it in despair; presuming only to offer this one remark: if there are some parts of it, which the humblest sinner upon earth would find appropriate to his feelings; there are others, which the loftiest spirit in heaven would not find unsuitable to his enraptured acts of adoration.

In bringing this work to a conclusion, the author can indulge no better hope, and offer no better prayer in behalf of its readers, than that they may all enter into the spirit of the various parts of that admirable service which has now passed under our review. For,

this is to hope that they may be Christians "indeed and in truth:" this is to pray that they may ever live in the enjoyment of the blessings enumerated in the BENEDICTION with which it concludes:-THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH

ALL UNDERSTANDING,

KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS IN THE KNOWLEDGE

AND LOVE OF God, and of HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! AND THE BLESSING OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY GHOST,

BE AMONGST YOU, AND REMAIN WITH YOU ALWAYS. AMEN.

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS

"O thou by whom we come to God,
The life, the truth, the way,
The path of prayer thyself hast trod;
LORD, TEACH US HOW TO PRAY!"

PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS.

A PRAYER

To be used by an individual when about to receive the Communion for the first time.

"ETERNAL AND EVER-BLESSED GOD! I desire to present myself before thee, with the deepest humiliation and abasement of soul, sensible how unworthy such a sinful worm is to appear before the holy Majesty of heaven, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, and especially on such an occasion as this," when I am about to renew the covenant-dedication of myself to thee over the consecrated memorials of the Redeemer's body and blood. "But the plan is of thine own devising. Thine infinite condescension hath offered it by thy dear Son, and thy grace hath inclined my heart to accept it."

I thank thee, O merciful God! that I was born in a Christian land, and received by Baptism into thy holy Church; that from the earliest days of childhood, I have been favoured with the instructions of the gospel, and other means of grace. Thou hast followed me with the precepts of wisdom, the invitations of mercy, the entreaties of love! But, O Lord!