DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF THIS BOOK. THE arrangement of this Book will be found to be by the Weeks of the Church's Calendar, so that, as with the Prayer Book, certain Weeks will be used or omitted according to the Season at which Easter falls and the consequent number of Sundays after Epiphany and Trinity. The Saints' Days form a group apart, following the similar arrangement in the Prayer Book. A BOOK CONTAINING A TEXT, SHORT READING AND HYMN For every Day in the Church's Bear SELECTED BY H. L. SIDNEY LEAR "For signs and for seasons, and for days and years" New York E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY MDCCCLXXIX PREFACE VARIOUS persons having expressed the wish for a little Daily Text-Book which should entirely follow the lines of the Church's teaching (which it appears most of the books adapted to daily use fail to do), this one has been prepared. The object has been to keep very definitely within those lines, so that the passages of Scripture will generally be found appertaining to the Services of the Week, chiefly the Sunday's Gospel and Epistle; while the Prose and Verse Passages bear more or less directly on those portions of Holy Scripture. In order to avoid the difficulty of the Moveable Feasts and Fasts, the arrangement is not by days of the month, but by the weeks of the Church's Calendar, so that, as with the PrayerBook, certain weeks will be used or omitted according to the season at which Easter falls, and the consequent number of Sundays after Epiphany and Trinity. The Saints' days form a group apart, following the similar arrangement in the Prayer-Book. In the hope that some soothing, comforting, or strengthening thoughts may be suggested to others' minds by these pages, I send it forth, asking God's blessing upon it and all who use it. ENGELBERG, July 1878. H. L. SIDNEY LEAR. |