Contents. Office for a Communicants' Class Rules for Guilds of Women and Men Office for a Guild for Children Rules and Prayers for the Choir Office for a District Visitors' Meeting : : : ... Office for a Sunday School Teachers' Meeting Office for Opening and Closing Sunday School Office for Opening and Closing Infants' School Office for a Devotional Meeting of the C.E.T.S.... Office for a Parochial Missionary Association Office for a Communicants' Class. First shall be sung a Hymn. Then shall follow an Address or Meditation. Then, all devoutly kneeling, the following Prayer shall be said by Priest and people: HEAVENLY Father, help us. Without Thee O we can do nothing. Without Thy help we cannot worthily approach Thy Holy Altar. Let Thy Holy Spirit guide us, and teach us wherein we have offended in Thy sight. Give us true sorrow for past sin, and grace to amend our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Form of Self-examination will then be read aloud, the heads of which are given below, and pauses will be made, during which everyone may privately and earnestly confess with sorrow the breach of God's will; or thank God who has given, by His Holy Spirit, deliverance from the temptation. B DUTY TO GOD: Of Prayer.-PUBLIC, earnest, hearty, as frequent as Of Reverence.-In God's house, for God's word and ordinances, holiness of the Lord's day. Of Love.-Do I love God? DUTY TO NEIGHBOUR. Do I love my neighbour as myself? Of Modesty and Chastity.-Eyes, ears, heart. Of Honesty.-Little things and big. Of Charity.-Guarding of tongue, doing good, refraining from lies. Of Contentedness.-My station, abilities, opportunities. Then shall Psalm li. be said by all: HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. : 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. |