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Not the beloved John could rest

With more delight upon that breast,

Nor THOMAS pry into those wounds with more intense de

sire.

Kindly he opens me his ear,

And bids me pour my sorrow there,

And tell him all my pains.

Thus while I ease my burdened heart,

In every woe he bears a part,

His arms embrace me, and his hand my drooping head sus

tains.

WATTS.

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY.

DECEMBER 27.

COLLECT. Merciful Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it, being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John, may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to the light of everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Be ours to mark His portrait fair
Whom thy recording pencil drew;
Be ours to mark thy faithful care,
To his divine commandments true;

To note thy life; to see thee fling

The beams of sacred truth abroad;
And soar with thee on eagle wing,

And view unblamed the throne of God.

And may our faith, blest Saint, like thine
By love to God and man be proved;
That we in some degree may shine,

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'Disciples by our Master loved."

BP. MANT.

ANOTHER.

"Peter, seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me." John xxi. 21, 22.

"LORD, and what shall this man do?”.
Askʼst thou, Christian, for thy friend?

If his love for Christ be true,

Christ hath told thee of his end.
This is he whom God approves ;
This is he whom Jesus loves.

Ask not of him more than this;
Leave it in his Saviour's breast,
Whether, early called to bliss,

He in youth shall find his rest,

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* "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will." Prov xxi. 1.

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COLLECT.

SAINT MATTHIAS'S DAY.

FEBRUARY 24.

O Almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the twelve apostles; grant that thy Church, being always preserved from false apostles, may be ordered and guided by faithful and true pastors, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

HYMN.

WHO is God's chosen priest?

He who on Christ stands waiting day and night,
Who traced his holy steps, nor ever ceased,

From Jordan banks to Bethphage height;

Who hath learned lowliness

From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross;
Whom poor men's eyes and hearts consent to bless;
To whom, for Christ, the world is loss;

Who both in agony

Hath seen him, and in glory; and in both
Owned him divine, and yielded, nothing loath,

Body and soul to live and die,

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