Have you felt presumption on the mercy of God, or too much despair?

Have you failed to do good from fear of the ridicule of others?

Have you done good from hypocrisy or vain glory?

Have you feared to sin more from dread than from love of God, without endeavouring to nourish the better feeling?

Have you neglected the service of God on holidays to give up those days to amusements or visits?

Have you murmured against God or his works?

Have you willingly permitted others to offend God or your neighbour?

Have you sought to promote the spiritual good of your servants, children, or household ?

Have you neglected the service of God from attachment to the world?

Have you exposed yourself to temptation and the evident danger of committing sin?

Have you neglected the counsels of your spiritual directors or superiors?

ON DUTIES TO ONE'S NEIGhbour.

Have you joyed in the distresses or felt sorrow at the prosperity of your neighbour?

Have you failed to excuse and pardon the faults committed against you?

Have you kept any animosity or bitterness in your heart?

Have you given bad advice when you could have advised better?

Have you praised any one for anything that he had done wrong?

Have you abused or struck any one in impatience or anger?

Have you turned another aside from any good work on which he was bent ?

Have you suspected or judged any one rashly? Have you detracted or taken away from another's character or reputation? or heard others do so willingly, or without trying to stop them? Have you ridiculed any one, or reproached him with his infirmities?

Have you given scandal, or been the occasion of sin to others by conversation, bad example, misbehaviour, or otherwise?

Have you despised or disobeyed your parents in matters of importance, or which they judged to be such.

Have you been the cause that others have sworn or blasphemed, or entertained evil or irreligious thoughts?

Have you felt hatred against any one?

Have you demanded payment that was not due to you, or more than was due, or charged more than the just price?

Have you refused to pay that which you justly owed? or involved yourself in debt?

Have you been harsh or provoking to those about you?

Have you been uncharitable to the poor?

(If a husband.) Have you been faithful to your marriage vow, loving and cherishing your wife, bearing patiently with any weakness of mind or temper or other infirmity, and being kind and frank to her lest you should estrange her confidence from you?

(If a wife.) Have you been wanting in your duty to your husband, in obedience and gentleness? or have you published his faults? or spent more money than he would afford? Have you given him any cause for jealousy, by lightness of behaviour towards others, or by indifference, or seeming indifference towards him?

Have you neglected to find fault with your children when guilty, or chastised them too severely? Have you neglected to have them baptised; to instruct them in their religion; to guard them from improper books, bad company, and from every situation that might lead them into temptation?

Have you used your best endeavours, subject to the pleasure of God, to provide for their comfortable and innocent subsistence in this world?

Have you neglected to maintain harmony and good will in your household, as much as was in your power?

Have you neglected to acquire the knowledge proper to your state of life, or necessary to the work which you had undertaken ?

Have you told a falsehood, or been silent and so deceived when it was your duty to speak out? Have you neglected the work or business to which you were hired or obliged by contract? or have you been guilty of any other species of cheating, stealing or dishonesty?

Have you, in fine, sinned in any of the nine ways in which one may be made the partaker of another's sin :-that is to say, 1. By counselling it: 2. By commanding it: 3. By provoking him to it: 4. By praising or flattering him for it: 5. By not speaking against it when you ought

to have spoken: 6. By winking at it: 7. By being a partner with him in the fact: 9. By defending the ill done?

ON DUTIES TO ONESELF.

Have you committed any excess in meat or drink?

Have you willingly given way to any immodest thought or desire, entertained any indelicate feelings, or been guilty of any acts of impurity?

Have you failed to keep a strict watch over your exterior senses, your sight and hearing, your feelings and speech?

Have you exposed yourself with too much confidence to the danger of sin, or taken any improper or dangerous liberties?

Have you sought to see, or to hear, or to read, anything that was immodest, or that you thought

was so?

Have you given up too much time to dress, to company, or to trifles?

Have you been proud on account of your prosperity, your personal appearance, your cleverness, or your relations and friends?

Have you despised and neglected those whom it was your duty to respect?

Have you given way to impatience, obstinacy, or anger? moroseness, sulkiness, or captiousness? or have you suffered your temper to be easily ruffled ?

Have you neglected your household dutiesthe superintendence of your family concerns, your servants and children?

Have you wasted your time in idleness, or in

chattering, from sloth, or from not endeavouring to get methodical habits?

Have you tried to defend and excuse yourself when you knew that you were in fault?

Thus examine into the state of your conscience; recollecting that God will require an account of every idle word and thought; and that whatever temper you have indulged in here which you could not continue to display in heaven, is wrong and ought to be amended.

A PRAYER TO OBTAIN CONTRITION.

I have sinned, oh my God; I have been led away from thee, and from the strict performance of those duties and charities of life which thou hast appointed me. I have been negligent, and have indulged my evil propensities; and now what has it profitted me? What can it profit a man, thou didst say, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? But have mercy on me, oh God, in thy great mercy, and let not my soul be lost. Free me from the guilt which I have drawn upon myself, by granting me that true sorrow which may enable me to obtain thy pardon.

When I remember all thou hast done for me, and all thou hast suffered for me, my merciful Saviour, can I persist in those ways which are displeasing to thee? Can I reject all thy kind conditions of mercy, and rely for my salvation on myself alone? Oh no, my Saviour, no! To thee I pray; in thee I hope. 1 am sorry for my sins-sorry for having displeased thee, and removed my soul from thy grace. Oh let me not continue in my loneliness; but strengthen the spirit of repentence within me, that thy light