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.