Fourth Service.

GOD IN NATURE.

I. HYMN.

1. Our Heav'n-ly Father, Na-ture's might-y Rul-er! Hum-bly be-fore Thee bow we down!

Thee will we ev-er love, Ev-er will hon-or Thee, Who art our glo-ry, joy, and crown.

II. RESPONSIVE READING.

LESS the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, thou art very great.

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Thou art clothed with glory and majesty.

Thou coverest thyself with light, as with a garment; thou stretchest out the heavens like a curtain.

Thou makest the clouds thy chariot, and ridest upon the wings of the wind. Thou makest the winds thy messengers, the flaming lightnings thy ministers. O Lord! how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all. The invisible things of God since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made.

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good; and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet God doth clothe the grass of the field.

Behold the birds of the air, that they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns.

Yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?

Yet not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father.

Selections from the Psalms [Ps. xix. 1-6; cxlvii. 7-9, 12-18; and cxlviii. 1-13]; or Job, chapter xxxviii.

V. PRAYER.

THOU, whom no eye can see, but every heart may feel: in lowly prayer we come to Thee. May Thy pure spirit teach us what we ought to ask. We thank Thee for this fair earth on which we live, and for the shining sky above our heads. All the things which Thou hast made tell us of Thy power; they speak to us of Thy wisdom; they show us how kind and good Thou art. We thank Thee, too, for all our friends; for all who have taught us Thy truth; and for those who have touched our hearts with the sense of Thy tender love. May Thy great truths be as a lamp unto our feet. May love that shall be a little like Thy pure love, shine forth from all our lives. As we work and as we play, may we rejoice in the Lord, and seek AMEN.

to do His holy will.

VI. HYMN,

Fifth Service.

THU

GOOD WORKS.

I. INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES.

HUS speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show compassion every man to his neighbor.

Seeing that the love of God is never standing idle, so be ye constantly abounding in good works for His sake.

The grand deciding question at the last day will be, not what have you said or what have you believed, but what have you done?

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

II. VERSICLE.

ALL SING.

MENDELSSOHN.

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O Fa-ther, grace and vir tue grant! No more we wish, no

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III. RESPONSIVE READING.

HEREWITH shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the Most
High God?

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good.

And what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, and

to walk humbly before thy God?

Mercy is better than sacrifice.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this:

To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain.

Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.

Let all bitterness and wrath and clamor and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And be ye kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. Walk in love, and walk as children of light.

For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.

Add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

IV. VERSICLE.

Guide us, Lord, by Thy Spir it, and in-cline our hearts to keep Thy laws.

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V. RESPONSIVE READING.

HAT doth it profit if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? Can that faith save him?

As the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. But some one will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

Let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.

As we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men.

In love of the brethren, be tenderly affectioned one to another;

In honor preferring one another.

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.