The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

THE LATE ABUNDANT HARVEST

FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING TO AL-
MIGHTY GOD, TO BE USED IN ALL CHURCHES AND
CHAPELS IN ENGLAND AND \VALES, ON SUNDAY,
OCT. 17, 1847.
ORDER OF THE MORNING SERVICE.

The service shall be the same with the usual office
for the holidays, except where it is in this office
otherwise appointed. Let him that ministereth begin
with these sentences :

To the Lord our God belong mercies and for-
givinesses, though we have rebelled against thee,
neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our
God to walk in his laws, which he set before us.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not con-
sumed, because his compassions fail not. He bath
not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us ac-
cording to our wickedness.
Instead of Venite Exultenzus,
Oh, give thanks unto the Lord and call upon his
name—tell the people what things he hath done.
Oh, let your songs be of him, and praise him, and
let your talking be of all his wondrous works.
This is to be followed by the following verses from
Psalms cix. 2,3, 4, 5 ; cxxxvi. 23-25 ; cvii. 8, 9 ;
lxvi. 7,8 ; ciii.l, 2 ; cxxxviii. 3 ; xlvi. 1; lxxv. 1, 2 ;
cxxxvi. 26, 27; followed by the proper Psalms, xxx.,
xxxiii., xxxiv.

First Lesson—Jonah iii. Te Deum Laudamus.
Second Lesson— Romans xii. Jubilate.

Instead of the First Collect at Morning Prayer, the
two following prayers are to be used :-
0 Lord, who for our iniquities has smitten us with
the rod of correction, and in compassion for our mani-
fold infirmities has withdrawn thy scourge from us :
We humbly acknowledge thy fatherly goodness in
blessing the fruits of our fields and redeeming our
souls from death. In the hour of distress and afflic-
tion, when our heart fainted within us, through fear
of the evils to come, we cried unto thee, and thou,
0 Lord, in thy mercy has changed our dearth into
plenty, and our apprehensions and sorrows into
thankfulness and joy. To thy loving kindness alone
we ascribe our preservation from the dreadful cala-
mities which must have fallen upon us from the con-
tinuance of famine in the land. Vouchsafe, 0 Lord,
we beseech thee, to accept our humble and hearty
thanksgivings, and so to enlighten our understandings
and sanctify our affections by thy good spirit, that
being warned by thy chastisements of the danger of
sin, and knowing that in thy favour is life, we may
dread thy displeasure above all things, and evermore
strive to please thee by such use of thy bounties as
may tend to thy honour and glory, and to the tem-
poral and eternal good of mankind, through Jesus
Christ, our Lord. Amen.

O merciful God, at whose bidding the earth bath
withholden her increase, and again hath rendered her
fruits in their seasons, give .us grace that we may
learn, from thy judgment, our entire dependence
upon thee for the supply of our daily bread, and that
being fully persuaded that whatever blessing we re-
ceive at thy hands is designed for our trial as well as
for our comforts, we may in part share of thy bounty
in dutiful accordance with thy holy will, to the
afflicted and indigent, the widow., the orphan, and the
aged, and thus obtain for ourselves that mercy which
thou in thy word hast promised to the merciful ;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Then shall follow the Collect for Quinquagesima
Sunday, and the second and third Collects at morn-
ing prayer and the Litany.
After the Collect, "We humbly beseech thee, 0
Father," &c.