WE give thanks unto Thee, O God, even we who are sunken in so many sins and have found no health and comfort save that which is with Thee only: We humbly beseech Thee that Thou wilt not turn from us, though it be but our just desert, the light of Thy countenance, but according to Thy great mercy increase in us continually that which Thou hast already begun; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.149).