AUGUST 17

MORNING

Pray one for another, that ye may be

RAHAM answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

      Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.--Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

      I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.--Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

      The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

EVENING

As for man, his days are as grass: as a

O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.--What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

      Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.--The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

      Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.--Use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.--Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.