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Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou also hast tried us, hke as silver is tried. Psal. 

 Ixvi. 9. 



Thou didst remember us iu our low estate, and redeem us from our enemies : for thy 

 mercy endureth forever. Psal. cxxxvi. 23, 24. 



Proper Psalms, cxviii. except v. 10, li, 12, 13, 22, 23, and to conclude with v. 24. 



I. Lesson, Deut. viii. 2. Lesson, Thess. v. verses 12-23 ^'^^^'^ inclusive. 



Collect for the Day. 



Almighty God, who hast in all ages showed forth thy power and mercy in the won- 

 derful preservation of thy church, and in the protection of every nation and people 

 professing thy holy and eternal truth, and putting their sure trust in thee ; we yield thee 

 our unfeigned thanks and praise for all thy public mercies, and more especially for 

 that signal and wonderful manifestation of thy providence which we commemorate 

 this day; wherefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name be ascribed 

 all honour and gloiy, in all churches of the Saints, from generation to generation, 

 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



A Thanksgiving for the Day, to be said after the General 



Thanksgiving. 



O God, whose name is excellent in all the earth, and thy glory above the heavens; 

 who as on this day didst inspire and direct the hearts of our delegates in Congress, to 

 lay the perpetual foundations of peace, liberty, and safety ; we bless and adore thy 

 glorious Majesty, for this thy loving kindness and providence. And we humbly pray 

 that the devout sense of this signal mercy may renew and increase in us a spirit of love 

 and thankfulness to thee its only Author, a spirit of peaceable submission to the laws 

 and government of our country, and a spirit of fervent zeal for our holy religion, which 

 thou hast preserved and secured to us and our posterity. May we improve these ines- 

 timable blessings for the advancement of religion, liberty and science throughout this 

 land, till the wilderness and solitary place be made glad through us, and the desert 

 rejoice and blossom as the rose. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our 

 Saviour. Amen.* 



II. Alterations in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration 

 of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, ac- 

 cording to the use of the Church of Englattd, proposed and recommended 

 to the Protestant Episcopal Church iti the United States of America. 



Ill the Order for Morning and Evening, service Daily throughout the 

 Year. 



1st. The following Sentences of Scripture are ordered to be prefixed 

 to the usual Sentences, viz. : 



The Lord is in his Holy Temple; let all the Earth keep Silence before him. Ilalj. 

 ii. 20. 



* The Epistle and the Gospel were added by the Committee, after the Convention 

 had adjourned, agreeably to an authority which they conceived to be vested in them, 

 in the appointment made by the Convention of them to see the proposed book through 

 the press. 



