The posture which, from some considerable experience, I would recommend at this exercise, is sitting with the head reclined upon the desk.

The prayer, besides being short, should be simple in its language and specific in its petitions.

A degree of particularity and familiarity which would be improper elsewhere is not only allowable here, but necessary to the production of the proper effect.

That the reader may understand to what extent I mean to be understood to recommend this, I will subjoin a form, such as in spirit I suppose such a prayer ought to be.
"Our Father in Heaven, who hast kindly preserved the pupils and the teacher of this school during the past night, come and grant us a continuance of thy protection and blessing during this day.

We can not spend the day prosperously and happily without thee.