, 1881-12-31

and especially in each particular nation,
town. Or Church for marked instances of
providential or spiritual blessing granted
to them during the year. Psalms cXlvili,
xxxiii., evil; Habakkuk Ill. Isaiah XIV;
Col. ii. 1-16; Deut. xxi. If.
Tuesday Jan. 3. Confession and ESTABLISHMENT.
First of all, confession of unfaithfulness
to the teaching and calls of God, of short
comings in His work, of failure to realise
full dependence on the Holy Spirit, of
trifing. of omissions, of opportunities lost,
Of faults among Christians and churches in
word and deed, OF public sins and p%rofana-
ton of the Lords day and of holy things,
of intemperance, of unblushing infidelity,
rampant vice and cruelty; with self-abase-
ment that we have so unworthily done our
part in fighting the good fight and in
seeking to make the cause Of Christ every
where to triumph. Psalm ii. Hosea xiv.
Eek. xviii. 20-32; Daniel TX. $50;
Psalm xxi; Micah vii. 18, 10; Joel ii.
12-15.
Wednesday, Jan. 1, Prayer and S%uppGtatiOn
for the Church Universal.
For every operation and gift Of the Holy
Spirit to render the Churches in particular
and the Church universal faithful and
PROSPEROUS. and that Gods people unay be
Wholly COlSGCIGlt1 " AAILI ~ JIG Slit
Of men full Of faith and Of the Holy Ghost;
for the Gifts OF knowledge, Of u~tterance, Of
faith. OF power, and Of a sound mind for
holy pastors, able teachers, mighty evan
oelists, Jealous helpers in all branches Of
the Lords service; for the better obser-
vanc Of the Christian Sabbath, for the
promotion Of temperance, and for deliver
ance to the prosecuted, re lief to the suffer
inc. fruit to the toiling, and glorious days
OF triumph and g0dly union TO all. Isaiah
Xiv. 10; John VII. 3i-43; Ephes. j..
3-23; John xvi. lis l Cor. xii. 12-31;
Rom. Xii.
Thursday. Jan. ). SHpHtatim for The Ya1g
and their Instructors.
For Christian parents-and that they
may Se q~uickened in the desire to teach
and mould their children Tor Christ for
the raising up Of men and women endued
with gifts from above for the leading of
children and young persons to the know
LEDGE OF God for OutDouringS of the Holy
Spirit on those engaged in instruction,
including Sunday ami primary schools, up
to Universities for a power from on high
to raise up in Che press and i'll literature
men mighty in the Scriptures, and endued
with sucn wisdom as adyerSarieS shall not
be able to gainsay or resist. Deut. Xi.
IS-25; 2kings xii; Ps. cXix. 9-24 PROV.
w; Col. iii.
Friday, JAM 8. lntrtsam for tho Nations.
That they may be saved from unbclief,
from forgetting and denying God that
many Jews may be brought to receive
Jesus as the true Messiah, that the Mo
hainmedans may be brought TO confess
Christ, that heather nations may be turn
ed from their idols, ali people from their
sins, and from loving and making war;
that al men may willingly submit to law
and authority; that enaetments favourable
to cruelty and vice may be removed that
the opium traffic may be abolished that
magistrates, rulers, and soYereignS may
be enlightened by the Spirit Of God, and
disposed and strengthened to promote
Righteousness and peace, and that the
knowledge ofthe Lord may cover the earth
John XII. 20-36; Micah vii. Rom. xiii
Job Xx>yi. Zech viii. 10 & 20-33; Tin
ii. Is 2 lin. iii, iy. 10.
Saturday, JAM I. SuPieatON for Missions,
Domestic and Foreign.
For a faithful testimony OF the Lords
npople against the errors of the day, for
the Gift of men and women ready to spend
all and to be spent in making known
Christ to those who know Him not; for
the increase in faith, 9:ices and members
of Churches still in their infancy, for great
blessing and special guidance to all native
ministers and converts; for wisdom and guld-
ance to all directors of Christian MISSIONS,
and, in general, for the outpour1ng OF the
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