For Safe Delivery in Child-Birth

—We bless Thee on the behalf of thine handmaid, who is now saying, I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplication Thou hast been with her in the hour of pain and peril, and made her the joyful mother of a living and well formed infant. Complete thy goodness by the renewal of her strength, and her ability to appear again in all the duties of her important station.

Let the impressions produced by recent mercies be rendered as durable as they are lively. May she remember, and pay Thee the vows which her soul made when in trouble.

May the life spared, and the life given, be dear in thy sight, and devoted to thy glory; and may every addition made to the world of creatures be found an accession to the church of the living God.