II. HYMN (all standing). TUNE: BENEVENTO.

While with ceaseless course the sun
Hasted through the former year,

Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here:
Fixed in an eternal state,

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait,

But how little none can know.

No. 13.

As the wingèd arrow lies,

Speedily the mark to find,
As the lightning from the skies
Darts, and leaves no trace behind-
Swiftly thus our fleeting days
Bear us down life's rapid stream;
Upward, Lord, our spirits raise,
All below is but a dream.

Thanks for mercies past receive;
Pardon of our sins renew;
Teach us henceforth how to live
With eternity in view;
Bless thy word to young and old;
Fill us with a Saviour's love;
And when life's short tale is told,
May we dwell with thee above.

III. RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING (all seated).

Leader: Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. All: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Leader: For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

All: So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

Leader: My son, forget not my law: but let thy heart keep my commandments.

All: For length of days and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Leader: Seek ye this day whom ye will serve. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and

mammon.

All: If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my father honor.

IV. HYMN (all standing). TUNE: ARMAGEDDON.

Who is on the Lord's side?

Who will serve the King?

Who will be his helpers
Other lives to bring?

Who will leave the world's side?
Who will face the foe?

Who is on the Lord's side?

Who for him will go?

By thy call of mercy,
By thy grace divine,

We are on the Lord's side,
Saviour, we are thine.

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No. 43.

Not for weight of glory,
Not for crown and palm,
Enter we the army,

Raise the warrior psalm;
But for love that claimeth
Lives for whom he died:
He whom Jesus nameth

Must be on his side.
By thy love constraining,
By thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord's side,
Saviour, we are thine.

V. PRAYER.

Jesus, thou hast bought us,
Not with gold or gem,
But with thine own life blood
For thy diadem:

With thy blessing filling

Each who comes to thee,
Thou hast made us willing,
Thou hast made us free.
By thy grand redemption,
By thy grace divine,

We are on the Lord's side,
Saviour, we are thine.

God of the years, our Heavenly Father, whatever the past may have been, whether of darkness or light, joy or sorrow, we stand at the threshold of the new year, waiting expectantly and confidently for some message of hope and good cheer. Help us, we beseech thee, to break loose from the bondage of evil habits. Help us to be more ready to forgive. Teach us how to forget when we forgive. Keep us, O God, in our daily living from compromise with evil and help us, we pray thee, not only to see the straight clean way, but to dare to follow it unreservedly, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

VI. HYMN (all standing). TUNE: SERENITY.
We may not climb the heavenly steeps

To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.

But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is he;

And faith has still its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.

VII. OFFERING: Special music.

VIII.

No. 75.

The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;

We touch him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.

O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate'er our name or sign,

We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine!

ADDRESS: "THE MORAL OF A RESOLUTION."

IX. HYMN (all standing). TUNE: VINCENT.
Lord, for tomorrow and its needs

No. 70.

Let me no wrong or idle word
Unthinking say;

Set thou a seal upon my lips
Through all today.

Let me in season, Lord, be grave,
In season gay;

Let me be faithful to thy grace,
Dear Lord, today.

And if, today, this life of mine

Should ebb away,

Give me thy sacrament divine,

Father, today.

So for tomorrow and its needs

I do not pray;

Still keep me, guide me, love me, Lord,
Through each today.

X. SILENT PRAYER (all seated with heads bowed).

Leader: Hear thou, O God, the vows we have silently made to thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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MOTHER'S DAY

(Mother's Day is observed the second Sunday in May.)

Organ Prelude (old time air).

I. OPENING SENTENCES (all standing).

Leader: Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

All: My son, hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother.

II. SINGING (all standing). TUNE: AMERICA. No. 106.

Dear Father, we thank thee that in thy greatest wisdom and power thou didst give to the world a mother, that through the birth of thine own Son Jesus Christ, thou didst glorify and extol Motherhood. We thank thee for our Mothers. Thou alone knowest the depth and height of mother love. Help us to be worthy sons, to live clean, upright lives, and to keep from doing the thing that would bring the blush of shame. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Sing softly, while heads are bowed. TUNE: DIX. No. 35.

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For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above;
For all gentle thoughts and mild-

Christ our God, to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

IV. SCRIPTURE READING (all seated).

Leader: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Take fast hold of instruction: let her not go, keep her; for she is thy life.

Hear also the words of King Lemuel, concerning a mother of the Bible, written in the book of Proverbs, the 31st chapter:

Strength and dignity are her clothing;

She stretcheth forth her hand to the poor;

She openeth her mouth with wisdom;

And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

The heart of her husband trusteth in her.

She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Her children rise up and call her blessed;

Her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying:
'Many daughters have done worthily,

But thou excelleth them all.'

V. SINGING (all standing). TUNE: LOVE AT HOME. No. 114.

There is beauty all around,

When there's love at home;

There is joy in every sound,
When there's love at home.
Peace and plenty here abide,
Smiling sweet on every side;
Time doth softly, sweetly glide,
When there's love at home.
Love at home,||
Time doth softly, sweetly glide,
When there's love at home.

In the cottage there is joy,
When there's love at home;
Hate and envy ne'er annoy,
When there's love at home.
Roses blossom 'neath our feet,
All the earth's a garden sweet,
Making life a bliss complete,
When there's love at home.
Love at home,||
Making life a bliss complete,
When there's love at home.

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NOTE. It is suggested that a white carnation be worn, the memory flower, symbolizing motherhood. Its whiteness stands for purity, its form, beauty, its fragrance, love, its wide field of growth, charity, its durability, fidelity.

SPECIAL PRAYERS

PHILIP E. HOWARD

O Father in heaven, teach us how to trust thee. The very next time everything seems dark to us, help us to look up into thy face; then everything will be light. Show us how to live so close to thee that we will always see thy face; then there can never be any darkness in our lives. When trouble threatens us, may we remind ourselves, "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me." Forgive us when we hurt thee by doubting thee, and when we darken the lives of others by gloomy looks and frowning faces. Smile upon us, and may the sunshine thus received straight from thee be given out by us to all we meet, until our little world is made glad that we have been with thee. Amen.

Let thy guiding hand, O God, be upon us always. May we not pull away from thee. We have done this over and over again, and so have brought disappointment and loss into our lives. Forgive us for the doubt of thee that makes us want our own way. May our love to thee, grow until we are eager to do just what thou dost tell us; until we can sing with thy servant of old, “O, how Page Eighty