fore the presence of thy glory, with exceeding joy. Amen."

Success crowned the efforts of Wilberforce in 1807, when his Resolution against the slave trade was received with such favor that it was adopted by Parliament by a large majority. The following prayer was composed in this year:

"What gratitude is justly due from me α sinner, who have been brought from darkness into light, and I trust from the pursuit of earthly things to the prime love of things above! O God, purify my heart still more by thy grace. Quicken my dead soul, and purify me by thy Spirit, that I may be changed from glory to glory, awd be made even here in some degree to resemble my Heavenly Father.

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May the God of hope fill me with all joy and peace in believing. O Lord, do Thou break, soften, quicken, warm my cold heart; and teach me to feel an overflowing love and gratitude, or rather a deep and grateful sense of obligation, not as a transient effusion, but

as the settled temper and disposition, the practical habit of my soul: that so I may here begin the song of praise, to be sung with more purified and warm affections in heaven. O spurn

“Lord, I cast myself before Thee. me not from Thee, unworthy though I am, of all thy wonderful goodness. O, grant me more and more of humility, and love, and faith, and hope, and longing for a complete renewal into Thine image. Lord, help me and hear me. I come to Thee as my only Saviour. O, be Thou my help, my strength, my peace, my joy and consolation; my Alpha and Omega; my all in all. Amen."

LAST PRAYERS OF HANNAH MORE.

Hannah More (1745-1833) composed a book of devotions, which was useful in its day, but which, like many other productions of her pen, which were written to answer answer a special want of the time, has long been almost forgotten.

She was nearly ninety when she died, but her faculties were clear, and she was kept in a state of delightful communion with Heaven

in the period of her last illness.

Prayer," says one, "was the last thing that lived in her; every breath was prayer."

"I am never tired of prayer," she said. "Pray, pray that the dear mistress of this house may be supported in her last hours." She prayed:

"Lord, have mercy upon me; Christ have mercy upon me and make me patient under my sufferings. Take away my perverse and selfish spirit, and give me a conformity to thy will.

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May thy will be done in me and by me, to thy praise and glory; I desire only to be found at the foot of the cross.

"Lord, I am Thine. I am not my own. 1 am bought with a price, even the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, have mercy upon me, and grant me an abundant entrance into thy kingdom."

And again:

"Lord, strengthen my resignation to thy holy will. Lord, have mercy upon me, a miserable

Lord, strengthen me in the knowledge of my Saviour Jesus Christ, whom I love and honor. How many parts of the Scriptures speak of the necessity of being born again! Raise my desires, purify my affections, sanctify my soul, to go to heaven-think what that is!—to go to my Saviour, who died that I might live! Lord, humble me, subdue every evil temper in me. May we meet in a robe of glory! Through Jesus Christ's merits we alone can be saved. Look down, O Lord, upon thy unworthy servant with eyes of compassion."

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DERZHAVIN

There are few single poems that are SO widely known among mankind as the hymn, or prayer of Derzhavin, beginning:

“O, Thou eternal One! whose presence bright All space doth оссиру, all motion guide: Unchanged through time's all devastating flight: Thou only God! There is no God beside!"

It was translated into Japanese by the imperial order, and, embroidered with gold, was hung up in the temple of Jeddo. It has been translated into Chinese and inscribed on silk; it found a place in the halls of the royal