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Examining Ourselves.

LESSON XIX.

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MONDAY.-Ps. cxxxix. 1.-0 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

TUESDAY.-Ps. cxxxix. 23.-Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

WEDNESDAY.-Ps. xxvi. 2.-Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

THURSDAY.-Ps. Ixxvii. 6.—I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

FRIDAY.-Lam. iii. 40.--Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

SATURDAY.-1 Cor. xi. 28.-But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

SABBATH.-2 Cor. xiii. 5.-Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ?

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MONDAY. Gen. xxiv. 63.-And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the even-tide.

TUESDAY.-Hos. xii. 4.-Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us.

WEDNESDAY.-Deut. ix. 18.-And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. THURSDAY.-1 Sam. xv. 11.-And it grieved Samuel: and he cried unto the Lord all night.

FRIDAY.-2 Sam. xv. 31.-And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Ánd David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. SATURDAY.-Matt. xiv. 23.-And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

SABBATH.—Acts xvi. 25.-And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

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We plead the promise of thy word;
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord.

Worshipping God in Public.

LESSON XXL

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MONDAY.-Ex. xxiv. 4.-And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

TUESDAY.-Ex. xxiv. 5.—And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peaceofferings of oxen unto the Lord.

WEDNESDAY.-1 Chron. xxix. 20.-And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the Lord your God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the Lord, and the king.

Selah.

THURSDAY.—Ps. lxvi. 4.-All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. FRIDAY.-1 Chron. xvi. 29.-Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

SATURDAY.-Acts ii. 1.—And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

SABBATH.—Acts xiii. 44.—And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

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Deut. xxvi. 10. 2 Chron. xx. 18. Neh. viii. 6.
Matt. ii. 11. Ps. xcvi. 9. Acts v. 2. Acts xiv. 1.

BROWNVILLE. H. M.

PSALM LXXXIV.

To spend one sacred day,
Where God and saints abide,

Affords diviner joy,

Than thousand days beside;

Where God resorts, I love it more,
To keep the door, than shine in courts.

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Attending upon Ordinances.

LESSON XXII.

MONDAY.-Ex. xii. 14.-And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. TUESDAY.-Luke ii. 41.-Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

WEDNESDAY.-Luke ii. 42.—And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

THURSDAY.-Isa. xii. 3.-Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

FRIDAY.-Cant. v. 1.-I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. SATURDAY.-1 Cor. xi. 26.-For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. SABBATH.—Acts x. 48.—And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

SECOND SERIES.

ix Luke xxii. Luke xxii. 20. Acts

ii. 41. Deut. xvi. 14. Ps. c. 4. Isa. lv. 1.

FOUNTAIN. C. M.

Rivers of love, and mercy here,
In a rich ocean join;

WATTS. H. A. 7.

Salvation in abundance flows,
Like floods of milk and wine.

Aiming af God's Glory.

LESSON XXIII.

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MONDAY.-Num. xiv. 21.-But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

TUESDAY.-John vii. 18.-He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

WEDNESDAY.-Ps. xix. 1.-The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handy work.

THURSDAY.-1 Cor. x. 31.-Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

FRIDAY.-1 Chron. xxix. 11.-Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. SATURDAY.-1 Chron. xxix. 12.-Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

SABBATH.-1 Chron. xxix. 13.-Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

SECOND SERIES.

Jer. xiii. 16. Ps. lxvi. 2. John xii. 28, Luke xxiii. 47. Ps. cxlv. 3. Rom. xv. 6. Ps. xxii. 23.

ORLAND. L. M.

PSALM CXLV.

My God, my King, thy various praise
Shall fill the remnant of my days;

Thy grace employ my humble tongue,
Till death and glory raise the song.

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