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Deus Misereatur
Ps. lxvii., styled by Dr Kay The Spiritual Harvest-Home Song of Israel, is to be applied by us to the Harvesting of Missionaries, when set before our minds in the Second Lesson. It especially refers to the gathering-in of the Gentiles ('all nations...
Duplication Of Phrases
It has often been noticed that pairs of words having nearly the same meaning frequently occur in the Prayer Book. This doubling of an idea may be called 'Duplication'. Duplication is of two kinds: either the words coupled together are so nearly ...
Easter Eve Setting Of Magnificat
[Transcriber's note: In the following section, in the original book, the material in the right-hand column was italicized. In standard Project Gutenberg practice, such text is (usually) surrounded by underscores (""), but for clarity, that undersco...
Examples Of Duplication
1. Exhortation. Parallel. goodness and mercy. assemble and meet together. Progressive. ( acknowledge . . . . . suggesting reluctance. ( confess . . . . . . . " willingness. ( sins . . . . . . . . ....
Extempore Worship And Forms Of Worship
There is no such special merit in monotony as to require that the worship of God should be conducted wholly in one method rather than in several. Rather it must be acknowledged that there is merit in variety if it be subjected to dignity and order....
General Scheme Of The Day Hours
We will not enter into the minute differences of structure which are found in one or other of the Day Hours. The following list will show the order of a Service which is nearly identical with each of them.: Our Father, &c. Versicles. Hymn...
God's Answer To Confession Is The Absolution Or Remission Of Sins
As an illustration of this we may think of Esther, when she went to make her petition of the King (Esther iv. 2, v. 1-3). The King extending his sceptre gave her permission to speak. ...
History Of The Apostles' Creed
The similarity of the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, as they stand in the Prayer Book, {95} suggests the reflection that disputes about the Human and Divine Natures of Jesus caused the enlargement of those parts which refer to Him: and that s...
Hymns In The Daily Services
We are about to explain how Hymns are attached to Lessons for purposes of worship. It will be well therefore to consider what a Hymn is, and how we arrived at the present arrangement. We will defer to the chapter on Anthems the consideration of th...
Intention And Setting
The same words may serve for Praise and for Prayer. The plainest meaning of "Hallowed be Thy Name" is Praise to God. But it may be also a Prayer to Him to cause His Name to be hallowed. If we have no reason to the contrary, we shall use the Lord'...
Introduction
TEXT and SERMON on Confession. The act of CONFESSION. GOD'S ANSWER to Confession. PRAISE. Praise-terminations THE LORD'S PRAYER . . . . . . Thine is the kingdom. ( 1. Interjected Verse...
Jubilate Deo
It is scarcely necessary at this time to show that the 100th Psalm is suitable as a Canticle after a Missionary Lesson; for it seems to be assumed that the Old Hundredth, in its metrical form, is an integral and necessary part of a Missionary meetin...
Justin Martyr
61. * * * We bring them where there is water; and after the same manner of regeneration as we also were regenerated ourselves, they are regenerated; for, in the Name of God, the Father and Lord of all things, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of...
Lessons And Lectionaries
Acts xv. 21. "Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath Day." The reference is to the Mosaic regulations which were to a certain extent to be observed by all Christians, out of considerat...
Magnificat
Jesus is known to us as the Son of Man: hence His people can use the words of the Blessed Virgin. When she looked forward to His coming, she used words which we can say after reading the Old Testament promises of a Saviour who should come into the ...
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