Bring us, we pray Thee, O God, into a truer knowledge of ourselves. Make
us to learn how frail we are, how poor and blind and naked; to the end
we may regard with due charity the shortcomings of others, and may
worthily praise Thy great Mercy, who yet hast not turned away Thy face
from us. For Jesus' sake. Amen.
"_Elijah went a day's journey_
_into the wilderness, and came_
_and sat under a juniper tree, and_
_requested for himself that he_
_might die._"
(1 KINGS xix. 4.)