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blessings afforded us through the night; and at the return of the evening we should implore the guardianship of heaven through the hours of darkness, and the pardon of God for our manifold transgressions: by this means we obtain a spirit of love and dependence, and an universal habit of thankfulness. Let us never then fail to direct our hearts and lips in prayer to God, as a morning and evening sacrifice. Let us daily call upon Him who alone can help us, and his ears will be open to our petitions; and if presented through the Son of his love, he will graciously bestow upon us all that is conducive to our happiness, both for this life, and that which is to
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INTRODUCTION.
" There is such an exalted delight to a regenerate being in the act of prayer," says the late Henry Kirke White," and he anticipates with so much pleasure amid the toils of business and the crowds of the world, the moment when he shall be able to pour out his soul without interruption into the bosom of his Maker, that I am persuaded that the