12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy

days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

The Beatitudes. St Matt. V.

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see

God.

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9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be I called the children of God.

10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Let it be well understood to what end these scriptural tests of character are set before you. You are not asked if you have attained that measure: no one living has. But are you seeking after it? And knowing how vainly you do so, are you praying earnestly for God's grace to strengthen and sanctify you: and are you relying simply on the sacrifice of Christ? If, by God's grace, it be So, then without doubt we are accepted of the Father, and invited to partake of those HOLY THINGS WHICH ARE FOR HOLY PERSONS, *

Then is sung Paraphrase XXXV: Meanwhile the Elements of Bread and Wine are carried into the church by the Elders, and set upon the Communion Table.

I 'Twas on that night, when doom'd to know

The eager rage of every foe,

That night in which He was betray'd,

The Saviour of the world took bread:

* Sancta Sanctis.

2 And, after thanks and glory given

To Him that rules in earth and heaven,

That symbol of His flesh He broke,

And thus to all His followers spoke :

3 My broken body thus I give

For you, for all; take, eat, and live;
And oft the sacred rite renew,

That brings My wondrous love to view.
4 Then in His hands the cup He raised,
And God anew He thank'd and praised;
While kindness in His bosom glow'd,

And from His lips salvation flow'd :

5 My blood I thus pour forth, He cries, To cleanse the soul in sin that lies;

In this the covenant is seal'd,

And Heaven's eternal grace reveal'd. 6 With love to man this cup is fraught,

Let all partake the sacred draught;

Through latest ages let it pour

In memory of My dying hour.

Then the presiding minister, standing at the Communion Table, the assisting ministers being on his right and left, and several of the Elders being around, proceeds with the First Table Service.

TABLE SERVICE I.

THROUGH the green glen, out from the town of Sychar, comes a woman with her pitcher on her head, to fill it with water. And there, in the wide plain of waving corn, seeking us, He is sitting wearied for a greater than Jacob was there that

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day and our Blessed Redeemer was resting by

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Jacob's well.

He asked the woman to give Him some water to drink and she, not quite refusing, yet expressed her surprise that a Jew should ask anything of a

* Quærens me, sedisti lassus.