COLLECT. SAINT JAMES'S* DAY. JULY 26. Grant, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. HYMN. AND couldst thou, JAMES, to win the meed Thy Saviour's cup of sorrow taste? Thou couldst such aid his Spirit lent! The tyrant's rage and cruelty, And last the fatal sword: The Greater. These came in turn; and then thy death! The first of all thy brotherhood! We dare not rend the veil aside Should seem that thou wert there to see, And he, the favored of your Lord, For not in vain his word was given Nor vain the word, that whosoe❜er To houses, parents, children, wife, BP. MANT. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY. AUGUST 24. COLLECT. O Almighty and everlasting God, who didst give to thine Apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach thy word; grant, we beseech thee, unto thy Church to love. that word which he believed, and both to preach and receive the same, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. HYMN. "BEHOLD, in whom no guile I find, NATHANAEL, thus thy virtuous mind A guileless heart! what fairer scene Or God's creation show? Fair are the snow-wreaths that infold SAINT MATTHEW'S DAY. SEPTEMBER 21. COLLECT. O Almighty God, who by thy blessed Son didst call Matthew from the receipt of custom, to be an apostle and evangelist; grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires, and inordinate love of riches, and to follow the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, world without end. Amen. HYMN. PREPARE the feast! the viands bring, But who is he, the host, whose care And who are they assembled there "T is MATTHEW, 't is the publican; Who sat, a much-despised man, |