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WEDNESDAY.
EVENING PRAYER.
O LORD God Almighty, I bless thee for all the mercies of the past day, and I pray thee now to take me under thy care, and to deliver me from all the perils and dangers of this night. Preserve me, O Lord, both in body and soul, from every evil, and keep me om all sinful thoughts when I am about to close my eyes in sleep.
And pardon, I beseech thee, all my offences, for the sake of Jesus Christ. I confess, Lord, that I have this day left undone many things which I ought to have done, and done many things which I ought not to have done. Pardon all my pride and vanity, my idleness and self- indulgence, my impatience, fretfulness, and discontent. Pardon, O Lord, all the rash and angry words which I have this day spoken, and all the sinful thoughts which have risen up in my mind, and which I have not been careful to resist. And especially, I pray thee, to pardon my forgetfulness of thee, my God, and my want of gratitude and love to Jesus Christ. For these and all my other sins which from time to time I have committed, I here implore thy pardon and forgiveness, in the name of my most merciful Saviour.
And since I know that my life is short and