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And now Lord, we ask you to bless our country at this time, and by your great and infinite mercy preserve us, we beseech you, from war. Oh, that peace may reign yet all over the world, but let not this nation intermeddle and be as one that takes a dog by the ear, but may there be wisdom given where we fear folly, and strength given where wisdom reigns. The Lord grant that wars may utterly cease unto the ends of the earth.

Oh make a way we pray you, for the progress of Christianity, of civilization, of liberty, of everything that is honest and of good repute. May your kingdom come, and your will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven, for your’s is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever.

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The Lord be pleased to reveal himself to his servants. Oh, for the uplifting of the veil, for the drawing near of the people that are made glad by the blood, for the speaking of God unto the soul, and the speaking of our soul unto God. Oh, for converse with the Eternal, for such fellowship as they may have who are raised up together with Christ, and made to sit in the heavenlies with him.

Oh, Savior, grant us a glimpse of your great love. One flash of your eye is brighter than the noonday. One word from your lips will be sweeter to us and more full of music, than the harps of angels. Grant it to every one of your children all over the world, both to the sick and to the dying. Oh how gloriously will they die!

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Oh, Lord, we ask for ourselves strength to bear and to do. Some of us would ask, if it were your will, restoration to health; but your will be done. Others would ask deliverance out of trouble; again, your will be done. Some would come before you with conscious guilt, and ask for a new application of the precious blood. We had better all ask it, let us all have it.

O God, bless our church and people more and more. How richly you have blessed us! When we look back upon past years, what God has brought about! Shall you be without our song? Even when we are not as we would be, shall our voice, if it be cracked and broken, still be silent? No, if every harp-string shall be broken but one, that one shall still resound the love of Jesus, and the glory of God. Long as we live we will bless your name, our King, our God of love; for there is none like you. “Whom have we in heaven but you, and there is none upon earth that we desire beside you.” Our soul is clean divorced from all earth’s good, and married to the Christ of God forever. By bonds that never can be snapped, we are one with him, and who shall separate us from his love? Amen.

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We pray, help us who know you and to glorify you. We have known you from our youth, some of us, and up to now have we declared your wondrous works. Oh, may there never be in our heart, and above all may there never come from our lips, or in our life, anything that might dishonor you. Oh, let us die a thousand deaths, sooner than ever dishonor your hallowed name.

This is dearer to us than the apple of our eye. We have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells. Gather not our soul with sinners, nor our lives with cruel men; but let us be helped, even to the end, to follow the Lamb wherever he goes, even if it be to Gethsemane and Calvary. Oh, to be perfect in heart towards the Lord! Our lives are faulty; we see much to grieve over; but we would have our whole heart towards your statutes; and we bless you that so it is; for our heart is in your ways, and we are willing to spend and to be spent for you. Reservation would we not make to the very slightest; but lay ourselves out for your honor only, for by us and in us, Father glorify your name!

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We ask you once more that you would, by some means, cause peace to be re-established throughout the earth. Grant that this nation may not be drawn into war. We have been foolish once over it, grant that we may not be so again; but Oh, let your Kingdom come without the use of the sword. Oh, angel of war, will you not rest! Oh, sword of the Lord, put yourself into your scabbard and be still; for the sake of the great Prince of Peace we ask it.

“I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.” (1 Timothy 2:1-2, CSB)

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Now do we hoist sail and draw up anchor to sail into another year. O blessed pilot of the future as of the past, we are so happy to leave all to you; but in leaving all to you we have one wish, and it is that you would in the next year glorify your name in us more than in any other year of our lives.

Perhaps this may involve deeper trial, but let it be if we can glorify God. Perhaps this may involve the being cast aside from the service that we love; but we would prefer to be laid aside if we could glorify you the better. Perhaps this may involve the ending of all life’s pleasant work and the being taken home—well, your children make no sort of stipulations with their God, but this one prayer ascends from all true hearts this morning, “Father, glorify your name.”

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Each believer here has trodden a different pathway: to some it has been a very smooth road, to others a very rough climb; to some a deep descent into the valley of sorrow and humiliation. But you have led your people by a right way. With all the twisting of the wilderness march, we are persuaded that when you lead us about, still we go the nearest way.

You know best, and oftentimes to retreat is to advance, and to be beaten back is to make surest headway. We would again in the recollection of the whole year, whatever it may have been, lift up the song of grateful praise, raise another stone of help to record the loving-kindness of our God.

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In the recollection of all that you have done for us your people, we are filled with amazement, as well as with gratitude, that you have loved us before the foundation of the world; that sovereign love should have pitched upon us poor unworthy ones, that you should so love us as to redeem us with the blood of Jesus and give the Only Begotten to die for unworthy creatures like to us; that you should love us notwithstanding our sins and transgressions, that you should love us despite the hardness of our hearts and the rebellion of our nature.

It is strange, it surpasses belief at times; yet do we know it to be so. And since the hour when we knew your love and learned to say “Abba, Father,” we do confess we have been unworthy still. We have but little felt your goodness; we have often acted very ungratefully, very distrustfully. But Lord, you have not changed, but your faithfulness still abounds to your servants; for which again we can only say, “Blessed be the name of the Lord!”

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O Lord, our God, how excellent is your name in all the earth! Some of us have to thank you for many mercies bestowed. We thank you for them; for we feel that we are entirely in your hands in all respects. Others of us have been brought very low, bruised full sore, but having a little strength remaining, we desire to praise and bless the Giver of every gift.

You are good when you give, and you are good when you take away. You are good when the night gathers heavy about us. You are good when the sun shines and gladdens our pathway. You are always good and do good, and blessed be the name of the Lord from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof, and through the night watches let his praise be still celebrated.

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Now this morning be pleased to refresh us. Draw near to us, gracious God: it is only your presence that can make us happy, holy, devout, or strong. Shadow us now with your wings, cover us with your feathers, and under your wings may we trust. May we follow very near unto you, and so feel the quickening warmth, the joy which only your nearness can bring.

Bless every preacher of the Word this weekend, in all Sunday schools, classes of young men and women, all tract distributing and street preaching, and preaching in the theaters, and every form of holy service. Accept the prayers and praises of your people. Receive them even from the sick beds of those detained at home. Let not one of your mourners, the weary watchers of the night, be kept without a smile from God.

The Lord bless us now, and all his chosen people. Our soul crieth out for it. Break, O everlasting morning, break o’er the dark hills! Let our eyes behold you, and till the day break and the shadows flee away, abide with us, O our Beloved, abide with us now.

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