JESUS, walking by the

sea of

saith, All day long have I stretched them when Jesus came. The other
forth my hands unto a disobedient disciples therefore said unto him,
and gainsaying people.
We have seen the Lord. But he
The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 18. said unto them, Except I shall see
in his hands the print of the nails,
saw two brethren, and put my finger into the print of
Simon, called Peter, and Andrew the nails, and thrust my hand into
his brother, casting a net into the his side, I will not believe. And
sea: (for they were fishers.) And after eight days, again his disci-
he saith unto them, Follow me, and ples were within, and Thomas with
I will make you fishers of men. them: Then came Jesus, the doors
And they straightway left their nets, being shut, and stood in the midst,
and followed him. And going on and said, Peace be unto you. Then
from thence, he saw other two bre- said he to Thomas, Reach hither
thren, James the son of Zebedee, thy finger, and behold my hands;
and John his brother, in a ship and reach hither thy hand, and
with Zebedee their father, mend- thrust it into my side; and be not
ing their nets; and he called them. faithless, but believing. And Tho-
And they immediately left the ship mas answered and said unto him,
and their father, and followed him.

A

Saint Thomas the Apostle.
The Collect.

My Lord, and my God. Jesus
saith unto him, Thomas, because
thou hast seen me, thou hast be-
lieved; blessed are they that have

LMIGHTY and everliving not seen, and yet have believed. God, who, for the greater con- And many other signs truly did firmation of the faith, didst sufferthy Jesus in the presence of his disciholy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful ples, which are not written in this in thy Son's resurrection; grant us book. But these are written, that so perfectly, and without all doubt, ye might believe that Jesus is to believe in thy Son Jesus Christ, the Christ, the Son of God; and that our faith in thy sight may never that believing, ye might have life be reproved. Hear us, O Lord, through his name.

through the same Jesus Christ;

to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for evermore. Amen.

NOW

Saint Stephen's Day.
The Collect.

GRANT, O Lord, that in all our
sufferings here upon earth, for

The Epistle. Ephes. ii. 19. TOW therefore ye are no more the testimony of thy truth, we may strangers and foreigners, but steadfastly look up to heaven, and fellow-citizens with the saints, and by faith behold the glory that shall of the household of God; and are be revealed; and being filled with built upon the foundation of the the Holy Ghost, may learn to love Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ and bless our persecutors, by the himself being the chief corner- example of thy first martyr Saint stone; in whom all the building, fitly Stephen, who prayed for his murframed together, groweth unto an derers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye standest at the right hand of God. also are builded together for an ha- to succour all those who suffer for bitation of God, through the Spirit. The Gospel. St. John xx. 24.

one

THOMAS
of the twelve,
called Didymus, was not with

thee, our only Mediator and Advo-
cate. Amen.

Then shall follow the Collect of the Nativity,
which shall be said continually until New-Year's
Eve.

fastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing of light upon thy Church, that it on the right hand of God; and being instructed by the doctrine of said, Behold, I see the heavens thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist opened, and the Son of man stand- St. John, may so walk in the light ing on the right hand of God. of thy truth, that it may at length Then they cried out with a loud attain to everlasting life, through voice, and stopped their ears, and Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ran upon him with one accord, and The Epistle. 1 John i. 1. cast him out of the city, and sto- Thichi HAT which was from the down their clothes at a young heard, which we have seen with man's feet, whose name was Saul, our eyes, which we have looked And they stoned Stephen, calling upon, and our hands have handled upon God, and saying, Lord Je- of the word of life; (for the life sus, receive my spirit. And he was manifested, and we have seen kneeled down, and cried with a it, and bear witness, and show unloud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to you that eternal life which was to their charge. And when he had with the Father, and was manisaid this, he fell asleep.

is with the Father, and scribes; and some of them ye shall with his Son Jesus Christ. And kill and crucify; and some of these things write we unto you, them shall ye scourge in your sy- that your joy may be full. This nagogues, and persecute them from then is the message which we have city to city; that upon you may heard of him, and declare unto you, come all the righteous blood shed that God is light, and in him is no upon the earth, from the blood of darkness at all. If we say that we righteous Abel, unto the blood of have fellowship with him, and Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom walk in darkness, we lie, and do ye slew between the temple and not the truth: But if we walk in the altar. Verily I say unto you, the light, as he is in the light, we All these things shall come upon have fellowship one with another, this generation. O Jerusalem, Je- and the blood of Jesus Christ his rusalem, thou that killest the pro- Son cleanseth us from all sin. If phets, and stonest them which are we say that we have no sin, we sent unto thee; how often would deceive ourselves, and the truth is I have gathered thy children to- not in us. If we confess our sins, gether, even as a hen gathereth he is faithful and just to forgive us : her chickens under her wings, and our sins, and to cleanse us from all *ye would not! Behold, your house unrighteousness. If we say that is left unto you desolate. For I we have not sinned, we make him say unto you, Ye shall not see me a liar, and his Word is not in us. henceforth, till ye shall say, BlessThe Gospel. St. John xxi. 19. ed is he that cometh in the name ESUS said unto Peter, Folof the Lord. low me. Then Peter turning

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0

The Innocents Day.

night, and departed into Egypt; and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by

The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, who out the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt of the mouths of babes and have I called my Son. Then Hesucklings hast ordained strength, rod, when he saw that he was and madest infants to glorify thee mocked of the wise men, was exby their deaths: mortify and kill ceeding wroth, and sent forth, all vices in us, and so strengthen and slew all the children that were us by thy grace, that by the inno- in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts cency of our lives, and constancy thereof, from two years old and of our faith even unto death, we under, according to the time which may glorify thy holy name, through he had diligently inquired of the Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. wise men. Then was fulfilled that For the Epistle. Rev. xiv. 1. which was spoken by Jeremy the

I LOOKED, and lo, a Lamb prophet, saying, In Rama

was

stood on the mount Sion, and a voice heard, lamentation, with him an hundred forty and and weeping, and great mourning, four thousand, having his Father's Rachel weeping for her children, name written in their foreheads. and would not be comforted, beAnd I heard a voice from heaven, cause they are not.

as the voice of many waters, and

The Conversion of St. Paul.
The Collect.

as the voice of a great thunder : and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and O GOD, who, through the they sung as it were a new song preaching of the blessed before the throne, and before the Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused