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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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Eighth Sunday after Trinity — The Disobedient Prophet

It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.

Prophet of God, arise and take With thee the words of wrath divine, The scourge of Heaven, to shake O’er yon apostate shrine.

Where Angels down the lucid stair Came hovering to our sainted sires Now, in the twilight, glare The ’s wizard fires.

Go, with thy voice the altar rend, Scatter the ashes, be the arm, That idols would befriend, Shrunk at thy withering charm.

Then turn thee, for thy time is short, But trace not o’er the former way, Lest idol pleasures court Thy heedless soul astray.

Thou know’st how hard to hurry by, Where on the lonely woodland road Beneath the moonlight sky The festal warblings flow’d;

Where maidens to the Queen of Heaven Wove the gay dance round oak or palm, Or breath’d their vows at even In hymns as soft as balm.

Or thee, perchance, a darker spell Enthralls: the smooth stones of the flood, By mountain grot or fell, Pollute with infant’s blood;

The giant altar on the rock, The cavern the timbrel’s call Affrights the wandering flock: — Thou long’st to search them all.

Trust not the dangerous path again — O forward step and lingering will! O lov’d and warn’d in vain! And wilt thou perish still?

Thy message given, thine home in sight, To the forbidden feast return? Yield to the false delight Thy better soul could spurn?

Alas, my brother! round thy tomb In sorrow kneeling, and in fear, We read the Pastor’s doom Who speaks and will not hear.

The grey-hair’d may fail at last, The surest guide a wanderer prove; Death only binds us fast To the bright shore of love.