E spend our years as a tale that is told.

WE

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

O GOD! to thee our hearts would pay
Their gratitude sincere,

Whose love hath kept us, night and day,
Throughout another year.

Of every breath, and every power,
Thou wast the gracious source;
From thee came every happy hour
Which smiled along its course.

And if sometimes across our path
A cloud its shadows threw,
Thou didst not waft it there in wrath,
But loving-kindness true.

For joy and grief alike we pay

Our thanks to thee above;
And only pray to grow each day
More worthy of thy love.

THOU in whose sight a thousand years are but as a day: we would raise our thoughts to the eternity in which thou dwellest, and to those things which know no change but from glory to glory.

We mourn that the closing year, with its broken vows and lost opportunities, has so much to fill us with shame. May we confess our sins with earnest desire to forsake them all for ever. The departing year has carried hence the hopes and treasures of many hearts. Dear friends have disappeared, whose coming steps we shall hear no more. Bring home to us a sense of our mortality. Made wiser by the solemn lessons of the past, may we henceforth walk more worthily of our high vocation as children of God. Guide us through the perils of all coming time. And may we turn to thee as our Father and our best Friend for ever. Amen.

INDEX

OF

AUTHORS OF POETICAL SELECTIONS.

Ackerman, Mrs. Lucy (d. 1874), 299.

Adams, Sarah Flower (Fuller) (1805–1848), 146, 147, 294.

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), 270.

Alexander, William Lindsay (b. 1808), 282.

Alford, Henry (1810-1871), 41.

Ambrose, St. (340-397), 249.

Ames, Charles Gordon, 149, 197, 259.

Anonymous, 14, 17, 37, 46, 58, 84, 110, 123, 128, 163, 176, 229, 291, 303,

333, 338, 346, 351.

Arnold, Matthew (b. 1822), 67.

Atlantic Monthly, 319.

Austin, John (d. 1669), 143, 151.

Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825), 82, 256, 257, 279.

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849), 277.

Bates, 312.

Bickersteth, Edward Henry (b. 1825), 363.

Bonar, Horatius (b. 1808), 16, 59, 86, 125, 152, 185, 272, 287, 327, 345.
Book of Hymns, 109, 119, 179, 269, 358.

Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872), 74, 76, 83, 142, 320, 331.

Breviary, 45, 50, 61, 64, 77, 112, 124, 134, 150, 164, 247.

Bridges, Matthew (w. 1848), 39.

Briggs's Collection, 335.

Browne, Simon (1680-1732), 199.

Bryant, William Cullen (b. 1794), 190, 349.

Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf (1809-1870), 54, 326.

Burnet, 10.

Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 121.

Byrom, John (1691-1763), 33.

Carey, Phoebe (1824-1871), 22, 281, 310, 348.

Chadwick, John White (b. 1840), 148.

Cheney, Edna Dean, 238.

Christian Hymn-Book, 210, 250, 295.

Clarke, James Freeman (b. 1810), 95.
Claudius, Matthias (1740-1815), 316.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), 9.

Conder, Josiah (1789-1855), 153, 222, 225, 262, 289.
Cotterill, Mrs. Joseph, 108.

Cowper, William (1731-1800), 101, 161, 264, 344.

Croswell, William (1804–1851), 359.

Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751), 52, 133, 166, 360.
Drummond, William Hamilton (1772-1856), 78.

Ellerton, John (w. 1870), 170, 307.

Elliot, Charlotte (d. 1871), 19.

Episcopal Collection, 239.

Evans, Albert Eubule (w. 1868), 288.

Faber, Frederick William (1815-1863), 36, 44, 75, 79, 116, 198, 207,

213, 214, 216, 224, 350.

Fénélon, François (1651-1715), 113.

Flint, James (1779-1855), 330.

Frank, Johann (1618-1677), 232.

Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon (1793-1870), 159.

Fuller, Richard F., 136.

Furness, William Henry (b. 1802), 65, 89, 248, 261, 263, 293.
Fysh, 201.

Gaskell, William, 2, 71, 195, 275, 366.

Gerhardt, Paul (1606-1676), 42, 103, 173, 175, 196, 301, 311.

Gibbons, Thomas (1720-1785), 328.

Gill, Thomas Hornblower (b. 1819), 1, 81, 87, 204, 365.
German, trans., 6, 244, 290, 298.

Gregory, St. (550-604), 265.

Grinfield, Thomas (w. 1836), 66.

Guion, Jeanne Marie Bouvière (1648–1717), 26, 193.

Harcourt, William Vernon (1789–1871), 334.

Hart, Joseph (w. 1759), 34.

Hawkesworth, John (1715-1773), 246.

Heath, 194.

Heber, Reginald (1783–1826), 145, 181, 234, 329.
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1794-1835), 100, 310, 340, 356.

Herbert, George (1593-1632), 31.

Hogg, James (1772-1835), 245.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (b. 1809), 18, 302, 315.

Hurlburt, William Henry, 355.

Hymns of the Ages, 28, 43, 68, 91, 92, 218, 231, 343.

Hymns, Andover, 97.

Hymns, Chapel, 217.

Hymns of the Spirit, 93, 102, 120, 305.

Johnson, Samuel (b. 1822), 322.

Keble, John (1792–1866), 3, 30, 32, 49, 98, 107.

Lehr (w. 1733), 85.

Lintrup, S., 130.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (b. 1807), 156, 297.
Longfellow, Samuel (b. 1819), 99, 276.
Lowell, James Russell (b. 1819), 154, 155.
Lynch, Thomas Toke (1818-1871), 94, 240.
Lyte, Henry Francis (1793-1847), 227, 285, 292.

Mace, Mrs. Frances Lawton, 273.

Mant, Bishop Richard (1776-1848), 306.
Martineau's Hymn-Book, 104, 105, 237.
Matson, William Tidd (w. 1866), 209.
Merrick, James (1720-1769), 226.
Methodist Collection, 171.

Miles, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (b. 1807), 183.

Milman, Henry Hart (1791-1868), 274.

Monsell, John S. B. (b. 1811), 122, 230.

Montgomery, James (1771-1854), 20, 117, 144, 158, 211, 266, 267, 278,

296, 332.

Moore, Henry, 243.

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), 118, 165, 167.

Moravian, 13.

Pleyel, 40.

Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864), 38, 70, 169, 178, 271, 300, 323.

Psalms, Spirit of, 15, 258, 361.

Quarles, John (1624-1665), 280.

Reed, Andrew (1787-1862), 184.

Register, Christian, 337.

Richardson, James, 157.

Robert II. of France (997-1031), 191, 223.
Robinson, 5.

Rodigast, Samuel (1649-1708), 228, 339.

Taylor, Emily (1795-1872), 236, 364.
Taylor, John (1750-1826), 21, 336.
Tennyson, Alfred (b. 1809), 352, 362.

Tersteegen, Gerhard (1697-1769), 318.

Trench, Richard Chevenix (b. 1807), 141, 168, 182, 188, 342, 347, 354.

Vaux, Thomas, Lord (1510-1557), 29.

Very, Jones (b. 1813), 140, 233.

Waring, Anna Letitia (w. 1850), 131, 132, 137, 205, 321, 353.

Waterman, Catharine H., 268.

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 60, 80, 111, 139, 172.

Wesley, Charles (1708–1788), 7, 11, 72, 203, 260.

Wesleyan, 129, 212, 241.

White, Henry Kirk (1785-1806), 313.

Whittier, John G. (b. 1808), 8, 12, 47, 88, 162, 177, 202, 242, 284, 286,

324.

Williams, Helen Maria (1762-1827), 114, 115.

Winslow, Harriet, 48, 174.

Wordsworth, Christopher (b. 1807), 126, 127.

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), 4.

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639), 254.

Wreford, John Reynell (w. 1837), 186.

Xavier, St. François (1506-1552), 35.

Zihn, Johann Friedrich (1650-1719), 314.
Zinzendorf, Count (1700-1760), 200.