Were what they were, because they mused
Upon the eternal years.

Pass not from flower to pretty flower,
Time flies and judgment nears,

Go, make thy honey from the thoughts
Of the eternal years.

Death will have rainbows round it seen,
Through calm contritious tears,
If tranquil hope but trim her lamp,
At the eternal years.

Keep unrestrainedly in this thought,
Thy loves, hopes, smiles, and tears,
Such prison house thine heart will make
Free in the eternal years.

He practices all virtues well,

Who his own cross reveres,

And lives in the familiar thought

Of the eternal years.'

F. FABER by T. T. C.

PSALMS ii. xviii. xxiii. xl. xliv. lxxxi. lxxxvi. xciii. xcv. xcvi. xcvii. xcviii. cxiii. cxxii. cxliv.

ANTHEMS.-Ps. xv. 1-7. xxvi. 1, 7. lxxxiv. 1. 2, 4. cxvi. 15, 16. cxix. 9-16, 33-36, 40, 106-108, 110, III.

HYMNS.-4. 17. 23. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 40. 76, 81. 83. 84. 126. 178. 206. 252. 301. 315. 326. 333. 340. 376. 395. 424. 455. 466. 485. 491. 507.

COLLECTS.-Ist Sunday in Advent. Christmas. Epiph. 6th after Epiph. 6th and 25th after Trin, Annunc. S. S. Simon and Jude. All Saints. 1st 3d and 5th after C. O.

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Thine Name is as ointment poured.' Song of Sol. i. 3.

'How sweet the name of JESUS sounds

In a believer's ear!

It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast;
'Tis manna to the hungry soul,

And to the weary rest.

Dear name, the rock on which I build,
My shield and hiding-place,

My never-failing treasury, filled

With boundless stores of grace.

JESUS! my Shepherd, Husband, Friend
My Prophet, Priest, and King,
My LORD, my life, my way, my end—
Accept the praise I bring.

Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought:
But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I'll praise Thee as I ought.

Till then I would Thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath;

And may the music of Thy Name.
Refresh my soul in death.'

EPIPHANY,* ETC., OR MANIFESTATION

WEEK.

THE GUIDING STAR.

As with Gladness men of old
Did the guiding Star behold;
As with joy they hailed its Light,
Leading onward, beaming bright;
So, most gracious LORD, may we
Evermore be led to Thee.

*The feast of Epiphany was not originally a distinct festival, but formed a part of that of the Nativity; and the word Epiphany was originally applied to Christmas-day as well as to the day to which it is now peculiar. The idea common to both these seasons was that of manifestation-the Nativity commemorated the manifestation of CHRIST in the flesh, and what we now call the Epiphany, IIis manifestation by a Star to the Gentiles. Wheatly however, maintains that the feasts of Christmas and Epiphany were always separate, and imputes it to the identity of the word used to designate them, that they were ever regarded as having been one and the same; whilst Bingham contends for their primitive conjunction. It is not, however, beyond the limits of possibility to conciliate the statement of identity with the statement of difference. 'The term