606 OPENING OF THE GAEDENS 



Lord, show Thy mercy upon us. 



And grant us Thy salvation. 

 Lord, save the Queen. 



And tnerciftdly hear tis when ive call upon Thee. 



And make Thy chosen people joyful. 

 Lord, save Thy people. 



And bless Thine inheritance. 

 Give peace in our time, Lord. 



Because there is none other that fghteth for us, but only 

 Thou, God. 

 God, make clean our hearts within us. 



And take not Thy Holy Spirit from us. 



Lord, our heavenly Father, wlio, when Thou madest man at 

 the first, didst place him in the Garden of Eden, his home in the 

 days of his innocency, look down upon us, who, in the midst of 

 our sin and misery, would recal the thought of that pure and 

 happy estate, from which we have long since fallen. We thank 

 Thee, Lord, for the relics of Eden, which Thou hast still left 

 to us. We thank Thee that the weariness of our earthly pilgrim- 

 age is cheered by sights and sounds and odours, faint images of 

 a beauty not of this earth. We thank Thee for the seeing eye, 



Teach its, Lord, so to use all the relaxation Thou hast pro- 

 vided for u3 in the midst of our business and our sorrows, that, 

 by the Holy Spirit's help, we may be growing fit to enter into the 

 beautiful abode which Thou hast prepared for Thy redeemed, 

 where sorrow is unknown, and the only business is to glorify 

 Thee. Lord, purify our hearts by the enjoyment of needful rest, 

 and kindly Christian intercourse, and the soothing contemplation 

 of all the charms which Thou hast given to nature and to art. 

 Teach us to rise from the sight of present, and the memory of 

 past pure enjoyments, to bright hopes of the restoration of all 

 things in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Grant, Lord, that 

 tliis city, in which we dwell, may be purified from the sins which 

 deform it, and their many pollutions. Guide us each to take his 

 part in helping those around us to live Christian lives, that thus 

 • we, and all whom we can influence, may be waiting and longing 

 for that holy city, tlie new Jerusalem, where is the pure river of 

 the water of life, and the tree of life, whose leaves are for the 

 healing of the nations ; where there shall be no more curse, but 



