9 After this manner therefore pray ve : Our Father which art in heaven, tlallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bveiid.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deUver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, lor ever. Amen.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you :
15 But if 'ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
These verses are few in number, and soon read, but they are of immense importance. They contain that wonder- ful pattern of prayer with which the Lord Jesus has supplied His people, commonly called 'Hhe Lord's Prayer."
Perhaps no part of Scripture is so well known as this. Its words are familiar, wherever Christianity is found. Thousands, and tens of thousands, who never saw a Bible, or heard the pure Grospel, aie acquainted with " Our Father," and " Paternoster." Uappy would it be