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index of first lines. We have not printed hymns easily accessible in the Revised Hymn and Tune Book of the American Unitarian Association, though many of them are specially appropriate.

A supplementary list of poems which may be found serviceable with slight changes, has been added. Selections from extra-biblical scriptures, and from various writers, ancient and modern, have also been made, in the belief that they will be useful, if not as readings in the service itself, then as suggestive thoughts. A few prayers, original and selected, are given for the use of laymen called upon to conduct funeral services.

The compilers are indebted to the kindness of many friends for the suggestions they have made and the assistance they have given. Special acknowledgment is due to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Roberts Brothers, and others, for their courtesy in permitting the use of copyright poems.

CHRISTOPHER R. ELIOT.

CHARLES J. STAPLES.

SELECTIONS AND POEMS.

A GENERAL SERVICE.

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

out.

O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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floods have lifted up, O Lord; the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I call to remembrance my song in the night; I commune with mine own heart. Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he be favourable no more? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. Woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. Not as I will, but as thou wilt; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak; O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall
I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom
shall I be afraid? The Lord is good, a strong hold in
the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in
him. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord
pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame,
he remembereth that we are dust.
Hast thou not

known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary? there is no searching of his understand-
ing. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that
have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths
shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they
shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and
not faint Wait on the Lord: be of good courage
and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the
Lord.

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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall

he live; and never die.

whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go

and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

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But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain but God giveth it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body. There is one glory

moon, and another

of the sun, and another glory of the glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly, such are they

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