The Morning Watches and Night Watches (Classic Reprint)

CjjE Hnrni DgW aklits. in IS little Yolume is designed to form, by the Divine blessing, an humble auxiliary in promoting, what is pronounced in the best of all manu of devotion to be a good thing, the shewing forth of God sloving-kindness in the morning, and His faithfulness every night. (P a xcii. 2.) It may not be out of place to remark, regarding the verse which forms the key-note to each petition 0 Lord, in the mormiig will I direct my prayer unto Thee that the word direct, in the original Hebrew, may literally be rendered, set in order. It refers to the setting in order of the wood for the burnt-sacrifices in the temple of old. While the heart othe believer, according to this beautifhl allusion, is represented as a spiritual altar, on which, morning after morning, he offers the oblation of prayer, this motto-verse may also serve as a magnet to keep the eye fixed, in each successive petition, on the great Antitypical Sacrifice, through whom alone it is that the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts are acceptable in the sight of God. Though more strictly designed for private devotion, and therefore expressed in the first person, it is hoped, by the substitution of the plural pronoun, that the following pages may not be inappropriate for the family altar. December 85, 1851.
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