THE Minor Festivals DEVOTIONALLY STUDIED, BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI, AUTHOR OF "SEEK AND FIND." "He are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.” I COR. iii. 9. “That our sons may grow up as the young plants: OCT 1881 GODTERANA PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT &Q LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE: 43 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET; 48 PICCADILLY; AND 135 NORTH STREET, BRIGHTON. New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co. 138. i. 6o8. HOOKER, in Book 5 of his Ecclesiastical Polity, speaking of Saints' Days, tells us : "They are the splendour and outward dignity of our religion, forcible witnesses of ancient truth, provocations to the exercise of all piety, shadows of our endless felicity in heaven, on earth everlasting records and memorials, wherein they that cannot be drawn to hearken unto that we teach, may only by looking upon that we do, in a manner read whatsoever we believe." |