has vouchsafed to
grant a particular revelation of his will--if he has been so unspeakably
gracious as to send his Son into the world, to reclaim mankind from
error and wickedness--to die for our sins--and to teach us the way to
eternal life--surely it becomes us to receive his precepts with the
deepest reverence; to love and prize them above all things; and to study
them constantly, with an earnest desire to conform our thoughts, our
words and actions, to them.

_A Morning Prayer for a young Student at School, or for the common Use
of a School._

Father of all! we return thee most humble and hearty thanks for thy
protection of us in the night season, and for the refreshment of our
souls and bodies, in the sweet repose of sleep. Accept also our
unfeigned gratitude for all thy mercies during the helpless age of
infancy.

Continue, we beseech thee, to guard us under the shadow of thy wing. Our
age is tender, and our nature frail, and without the influence of thy
grace, we shall surely fall.

Let that influence descend into our hearts, and teach us to love thee
and truth above all things. O guard our hearts from the temptations to
deceit, and grant, that we may abhor a lie as a sin and as a disgrace.

Inspire us also with an abhorrence of the loathsomeness of vice, and the
pollutions of sensual pleasure. Grant at the same time, that we may
early feel the delight of conscious purity, and wash our hands in
innocency, from the united motives of inclination and of duty.

Give us, O thou Parent of all knowledge, a love of learning, and a
taste for the pure and sublime pleasures of the understanding. Improve
our memory, quicken our apprehension, and grant that we may lay up such
a store of learning, as may fit us for the station to which it shall
please thee to call us, and enable us to make great advances in virtue
and religion, and shine as lights in the world, by the influence of a
good example.

Give us grace to be diligent in our studies, and that whatever we read
we may strongly mark, and inwardly digest it.

Bless our parents, guardians, and instructors; and grant that we may
make them the best return in our power, for giving us opportunities of
improvement, and for all their care and attention to our welfare. They
ask no return, but that we should make use of those opportunities, and
co-operate with their endeavours--O grant that we may never disappoint
their anxious expectations.

Assist us mercifully, O L