FRENCH.

"Notre Père, qui es aux cieux, ton nom soit sanctifié.

"Ton règne vienne; ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel;

"Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien; "Et nous quitte nos dettes, comme nous quittons aussi les dettes à nos débiteurs;

"Et ne nous induis point en tentation; mais délivre-nous du mal; car à toi est le règne,

et la puissance et la

gloire à jamais.

"Amen."

METRICAL VERSION.

Ascribed to James I., but possibly composed by Bishop Andrews.

"If any be distressed, and fain would gather Some comfort, let him hasten unto

Our Father;

"For we of hope and help are quite bereaven Unless Thou succor us

Who art in heaven.

"Thou showest mercy, therefore for the same

We praise Thee, singing;

Hallowed be Thy name.

"Of all our miseries cast up

the sum,

Show us Thy joys, and let

Thy kingdom come.

"We mortal are, and alter from our birth;

Thou constant art:

Thy will be done on earth.

"Thou mad'st the earth, as well as planets seven; Thy name is Blessed here,

As 'tis in heaven.

"Nothing we have to use, or debts to pay, Except Thou give it us.

Give us this day

"Wherewith to clothe us, wherewith to be fed, For without Thee we want

Our daily bread.

"We want, but want no faults; for no day passes But we do sin

Forgive us our trespasses.

"No man from sinning ever free did live,

Forgive us Lord our sins,

As we forgive.

"If we repent our faults, Thou ne'er disdain

est us;

We pardon

Them that trespass against us:

"Forgive us, that is past, a new path tread us; Direct us always in Thy faith,

And lead us,

"We Thine own people and Thy chosen nation Into all truth, but

Not into temptation.

"Thou that of all good graces art the giver, Suffer us not to wander

But deliver

"Us from the fierce assaults of world and devil And flesh, so shalt Thou free us

From all evil.

"To these petitions let both church and laymen With one consent of heart and voice say

Amen."

III.

THE PRAYER OF TOBIT FOR DEATH.

"O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly forever.

"Remember me and look on me; punish me not for my sins and ignorance, and the sins of my fathers who have sinned before thee.

"For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

"And now thy judgments are many and true; deal with me according to my sins and my

fathers' because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.

"Now, therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved and become earth; for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow; command, therefore, that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me." [SEE APOCRYPHA. Tobit, Chap. iii.]