The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

THE COMMUNION SERVICE

After the Prayer for the Queen, "Almighty God,
whose Kingdom is everlasting," &c., instead of the Col-
lect for the Day, shall this which followeth be used.
0 God, at whose bidding the earth, which sustaineth
the life of man, hath withholden in parts of these island
the wonted provision of food, and turned abundance ill
scarcity ; withdraw, we beseech Thee,_ the judgment
with which Thou bast visited us, that the poor perish 11°' by famine. We acknowledge, 0 Lord, that by oar
atrifesand divisions,of
fThym
ouranifod mercies, w
misusel ofThyge hiftsa,
vaend for-
getfulnessjustlY
deserved punishment. We have sinned, we have ries'
g „A.
ously sinned against Thee; yet, knowing that thou al
full of compassion, we beseech Thee to pardon the
fences of Thy people, to relieve the poor and the nelf
in.thair preent necessities, and to give and preservoe,t,
with receive
entireT h y di
submissionspen aon dispensations our use, the fruits of the earth in their season, )",
whatsoever may be Thy pleasure concerning us,
gorrancieertcoy,
endeavour-
ing to abate Thy displeasure by repeohine4;, and shoo-11g
wThheyt hwier.llof 'u g—e°
forth our sense of Thy goodness, by faithfully keeping
Thy commandments. Of ourselves we are unable either
to will or to do that which is acceptable in Thy sight'
We therefore pray Thee so to open our hearts to the 111':
fluences of Thy good Spirit, that showing compassion_
and mercy each man to his neighbonr, and bearing the
burdens one of another, we may obtain of Thy favour the
supply of our wants, and, with hearts knit together
brotherly love, may partake of Thy bounties in peace and

contentment, to the honour and praise of Thy name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Aaiun.

APPOINTED FOR NATIONAL HUMILIA"
TION.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE DUE OBSERVANCE Up
THE LORD'S DAY, TO THE RIGHT REVEREND -

ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND CLERGY OF THE UNIT

CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
It having pleased Almighty God, in His inscrutable
wisdom, to afflict with grievous famine certain parts ,
vealed Word in our handl

,vnien teaches us that such National Visitations are st,
upon us in consequence of National Sins, it surely be'
comes us to inquire into the causes which have thus pro'
yoked the displeasure of Him who doth not willing'?
afflict the children of men, with a view to national huan'
liation, repentance, and reformation.
The Committee of the Lord's-day Society, acting i°
their associated capacity, and in consequence of the infer-
-shied'
formation t' )tained

- --ley have of . in carrying out the. ot.J.-_.
of the Society, have no hesitation in declaring it to be
their conviction, that the wide-spread desecration of the
Lord's-day
now existing in our land, is one cause, amongst
many others, why God is thus visiting us as a Nation'
and that cause -

tad
and consequence areas closely coma
tad,
in the present day, as in the days of old, when God 1
"My Sabbaths they greatly polluted
then 1 _995 w
would pour out
ffmy fury upon them in the wihipytte"'
_ _ .

(Jzek. xx

The fact of the existence oftis wide-spread deseas-
tion of the Lord's-day is palpable and undeniable. Oa
Post-office system, by the transmission and delivery 0, :
letters and newspapers on that day, gives a National chit
racter and an official sanction to this sin, and is the %calk
and origin of much of that public violation of, the
Railwaylol
w- ^^w to l -t deplore. Our

nave nou amens am.
system has fearfully contributed to extend this evil, by t.
hr
emnlovment of men, in many instances, in the forrnatiol!

of lines of railway ;and it now perpetuates it by nleallg

that day,—Public-houses being open theegreater part of
the Lord's-day, is another abounding source of Sabbath
desecration ; also Sunday Trading, Sunday Markets, th.°
employment of steam-boats, labour on canals, and nal ,„,1-
gable rivers, and other evils which it is not necessary 1"
enumerate.