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AdvertisementMorningEveningAdvent SundaySecond Sunday in Advent — The Signs of the TimesThird Sunday in Advent — The TravellersFourth Sunday in Advent — DimnessChristmas DaySt. Stephen’s DaySt. John’s DayThe Holy InnocentsFirst Sunday after Christmas — The Sun-dial of AhazThe CircumcisionSecond Sunday after Christmas — The Pilgrim's SongThe EpiphanyFirst Sunday after Epiphany — The NightingaleSecond Sunday after Epiphany — The Secret of PerpetualYouthThird Sunday after Epiphany — The Good CenturionFourth Sunday after Epiphany — The World is for Excitement, the Gospel for SoothingFifth Sunday after Epiphany — Cure Sin and you cure SorrowSixth Sunday after Epiphany — The Benefits of UncertaintySeptuagesima SundaySexagesima SundayQuinquagesima SundayAsh WednesdayFirst Sunday in Lent — The City of RefugeSecond Sunday in Lent — Esau's ForfeitThird Sunday in Lent — The Spoils of SatanFourth Sunday in Lent — The Rose-budFifth Sunday in Lent — The Burning BushSunday next before Easter — The Children in the TempleMonday before Easter — Christ waiting for the CrossTuesday before Easter — Christ refusing the wine and myrhhWednesday before Easter – Christ in the GardenThursday before Easter — The Vision of the Latter DaysGood FridayEaster EveEaster DayMonday in Easter Week — St. Peter and CorneliusTuesday in Easter Week — The Snow-dropFirst Sunday after Easter — The restless Pastor reprovedSecond Sunday after Easter — BalaamThird Sunday after Easter — Langour and TravailFourth Sunday after Easter — The Dove on the CrossFifth Sunday after Easter — The Priest’s IntercessorAscension DaySunday after Ascension Day — Seed timeWhitsundayMonday in Whitsun-week — The City of ConfusionTuesday in Whitsun-week — Holy OrdersTrinity SundayFirst Sunday after Trinity — Israel among the ruins of CanaanSecond Sunday after Trinity — Charity the Life of FaithThird Sunday after Trinity — Comfort for Sinners in the Presence of the GoodFourth Sunday after Trinity — The Groans of NatureFifth Sunday after Trinity — The Fishermen of BethsaidaSixth Sunday after Trinity — The Psalmist repentingSeventh Sunday after Trinity — The Feast in the WildernessEighth Sunday after Trinity — The Disobedient ProphetNinth Sunday after Trinity — Elijah in HorebTenth Sunday after Trinity — Christ weeping over JerusalemEleventh Sunday after Trinity — Gehazi reprovedTwelfth Sunday after Trinity — The Deaf and DumbThirteenth Sunday after Trinity — Moses on the MountFourteenth Sunday after Trinity — The Ten LepersFifteenth Sunday after Trinity — The Flowers of the FieldSixteenth Sunday after Trinity — Hope is better than EaseSeventeenth Sunday after Trinity — Ezekiel’s Vision in the TempleEighteenth Sunday after Trinity — The Church in the WildernessNineteenth Sunday after Trinity — Shadrach, Meshach, and AbednegoTwentieth Sunday after Trinity — Mountain SceneryTwenty-first Sunday after Trinity — The Red-breast in SeptemberTwenty-second Sunday after Trinity — The Rule of Christian forgivenessTwenty-third Sunday after Trinity — Forest Leaves in AutumnTwenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity — Imperfection of Human SympathyTwenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity — The two RainbowsSunday next before Advent — Self-examination before AdventSt. Andrew’s DaySt. Thomas the ApostleConversion of St. PaulPurification of St. Mary the VirginSt. Matthias’ DayAnnunciation of the Blessed Virgin MarySt. Mark’s DaySt. Philip and St. James’ DaySt. Barnabas the ApostleSt. John Baptist’s DaySt. Peter’s DaySt. James the ApostleSt. Bartholomew the ApostleSt. Matthew the ApostleSt. Michael and all AngelsSt. Luke the EvangelistSt. Simon and St. Jude, ApostlesAll Saints’ DayHoly CommunionHoly BaptismCatechismConfirmationMatrimonyVisitation and Communion of the SickBurial of the DeadChurching of WomenComminationForms of Prayer to Be Used at SeaGunpowder TreasonKing Charles the MartyrThe Restoration of the Royal FamilyThe AccessionOrdination

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Monday in Easter Week — St. Peter and Cornelius

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh , is accepted with Him. Acts x. 34, 35.

Go up and watch the new-born rill Just trickling from its mossy bed, Streaking the heath-clad hill With a bright emerald thread.

Canst thou her bold career foretell, What rocks she shall o’erleap or rend, How far in Ocean’s swell Her freshening billows send?

Perchance that little brook shall flow The bulwark of some mighty realm, Bear navies to and fro With monarchs at their helm.

Or canst thou guess, how far away Some sister nymph, beside her urn Reclining night and day, ’Mid reeds and mountain fern,

Nurses her store, with thine to blend When many a moor and glen are past, Then in the wide sea end Their spotless lives at last?

E’en so, the course of prayer who knows? It springs in silence where it will, Springs out of sight, and flows At first a lonely rill:

But streams shall meet it by and by From thousand sympathetic hearts, Together swelling high Their chant of many parts.

Unheard by all but angel ears The good Cornelius knelt alone, Nor dream’d his prayers and tears Would help a world undone.

The while upon his terrac’d roof The lov’d Apostle to his Lord In silent thought aloof For heavenly vision soar’d.

Far o’er the glowing western main His wistful brow was upward rais’d, Where, like an angel’s train, The burnish’d water blaz’d.

The beside the ocean pray’d, This soldier in his chosen bower, Where all his eye survey’d Seem’d sacred in that hour.

To each unknown his brother’s prayer, Yet brethren true in dearest love Were they — and now they share Fraternal joys above.

There daily through Christ’s open gate They see the spirits press, Brightening their high estate With dearer happiness.

What civic wreath for comrades sav’d Shone ever with such deathless gleam, Or when did perils brav’d So sweet to veterans seem?