href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35737@[email protected]#c18" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">18. Prayer on a birth day 25 19. Prayer for children 29 20. Prayer for young persons 31 21. Prayer of a servant 32 22. Prayer of a husband 35 23. Prayer of a wife 37 24. Prayer of an aged person 39 25. Prayer for a proper performance of one’s duties 40 26. Prayer before labor 41 27. Prayer for divine blessing upon the work of one’s calling 42 28. Luther’s prayer based on the scriptural passage: “Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you” 44 29. Prayer before beginning any important work 44 30. Thanks returned after labor 46 31. Prayer during a journey 46 32. Prayer while beginning a journey at sea 47 33. Prayer of a seafarer during a storm 49 A brief instruction in confession and absolution 51 34. Complaint of a poor sinner concerning the impenitence of his heart 56 35. Prayer for true conversion 57 36. Prayer for the forgiveness of sin 60

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">37. Prayer for reconciliation with our neighbor 64 Brief instruction concerning the Holy Supper 66 38. Morning Prayer of a communicant 72 39. Prayer for a worthy partaking of the Holy Supper 74 40. Thanksgiving after partaking of the Holy Supper 76 41. Prayer that God would hereafter keep us from sin, and if we sin that he would not reckon it to our account 77 42. Prayer in view of the sufferings of Christ 79 43. Prayer in time of drought 81 44. Prayer for sunshine in a protracted season of wet and rain 83 45. Prayer for the precious fruits of the field 84 46. Prayer during a storm 85 47. Thanksgiving when the storm is over 87 48. Prayer in great weakness of faith 88 49. Prayer in great trouble and danger 89 50. Thanksgiving after a safe journey 90 51. Thanksgiving for deliverance out of tribulation 91 52. Morning prayer of a sick person 92 53. Another morning prayer in sickness 93 54. Evening prayer of a sick person 95 55. Another evening prayer of a sick person 95

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">56. Prayer in sickness 96 57. Prayer of a penitent in sickness 99 58. Short prayers in sickness for every hour of the day: 1. At one o’clock 101 2. At two o’clock 102 3. At three o’clock 102 4. At four o’clock 103 5. At five o’clock 103 6. At six o’clock 104 7. At seven o’clock 104 8. At eight o’clock 105 9. At nine o’clock 106 10. At ten o’clock 107 11. At eleven o’clock 108 12. At twelve o’clock 108 59. Thanksgiving after recovery 109 60. Three prayers in the hour of death: 1. To God the Father 110 2. To God the Son 111 3. To God the Holy Ghost 112 61. Prayer of the attendants upon a dying person 113 62.

Another prayer 114 63. A short litany together with prayers for a dying person 114 64. Prayer when the sick person has departed in the Lord 117
APPENDIX I.
FESTIVAL PRAYERS. 1. Prayer for the beginning of a new church year 118 2. Prayer for the Advent season 122 3. Christmas prayer 124 4. Prayer on New Year’s day 127 5. Prayer on Epiphany 131 6. Prayer on the day of Purification 133 7. Prayer on the day of Annunciation 135 8. Prayer on Maundy-Thursday 137 9. Prayer on Good-Friday 139 10. Prayer on the festival of Easter 141 11. Prayer on Ascension day 142 12. Prayer on Whitsunday 144 13. Prayer on the festival of the Holy Trinity 147 14. Prayer on the day of John the Baptist 149 15. Prayer on the day of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary 151 16. Prayer on St. Michael’s day 152 17. Prayer on the festival of the Reformation 155 18. Prayer on Church-Consecration day 157

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35737@[email protected]#c100" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">19. Prayer on Harvest festival 158 20. Prayer on Mission festival 160 21. From Caspar Neuman’s substance of all prayers 163
APPENDIX II.
HYMNS. Morning hymn 172 Evening hymn 174 Hymns of cross and consolation 175 Hymn of christian life 181 Hymn of hope in death 182 Hymn of glad eternity 183

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Prayers before and after meat 185 & 186