ACCOUCHMENT OF HER MAJESTY. FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 233, 23 August 1848, Page 3

ACCOUCHMENT OF HER MAJESTY. FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING.

The following is a copy of the form of Prayer an<l Thanksgiving prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury to be reid in a'l churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of l3erwick-upon-Tweed, for Ihe safe delivery of the Queen and the happy birth of a Princess :— " Almighty and merciful God, by whose providence the whole world is governed and preserved, we yield Thee hearty thinks that it h.nh please.l Thee to deliver Thy Servant ourSoveieign Lady the Queen, from the perils of childbirth, and to make her a joyful mother. We humbly beseech Thc\j to keep her under Thy fatherly c,ire and protection, and enable her in the hour of weakness, to feel the fcupport ot Thy eveilasting arm. Defend the infant Princess from all dangers which may happen to the body, and from all evil which may assault and hurt the aoul ; and grant that as she grows in jears she may giow in grace and in every Christian virtue. Let thy continual help preserve our Queen and her Poyal Consort ; th.it Thou being their ru'er and guide, they may so pass through, thinp-s temporal that they finally lose not the tilings eternul. And giant, O Lord, that Thy goodness to our land may so affect the hearts of us Tliy prople, that we may show our thankfulness by ready obedience to Thy will, by dutiful allegiance to our Sovereign, and by Christian charity lone towards another ; that so living m the faith of Thy dear Son, who loved us, and t,ave Himself for ua, we may be indeed a holy nation, a peculiar people, and show forth Thy praise, who had called ug to Thy kingdom and glory. Grant ibis, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and baviour. Amen."