SUNDAY MEDITATIONS.

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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AIDS TO PRAYER; or, Thoughts on the Practice of Private Devotion.

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THE AGE AND THE GOSPEL. The Hulsean Lecture before the University of Cambridge.

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CHRISTIAN CONSOLATION; or, Discourses on the Trials of the Christian Life.

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DISCOURSES ON THE LORD'S PRAYER.

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DAILY DEVOTION; or, Prayers on the Successive Chapters of the New Testament. Adapted for the Family or the Closet.

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SERMONS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS. At St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, before the Queen, before the University, etc.

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CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. Lectures on the Song of

Solomon.

SUNDAY MEDITATIONS;

ADAPTED TO THE COURSE OF

The Christian ear.

BY

CHAPLAIN

DANIEL MOORE, M.A.,

IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN, AND VICAR OF HOLY TRINITY.

PADDINGTON; AUTHOR OF 'DAILY DEVOTION," HULSEAN LECTURES
ON THE AGE AND THE GOSPEL,' ETC.

O day most calm, most bright!
The fruit of this, the next world's bud;
The indorsement of supreme delight,
Writ by a friend, and with his blood;
The couch of time; care's balm and bay :-

The week were dark, but for thy light;

Thy torch doth show the way.

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The Sundays of man's life,

Threaded together on time's string,
Make bracelets to adorn the wife
Of the eternal, glorious King.
On Sunday, Heaven's gate stands ope;
Blessings are plentiful and rife;

More plentiful than hope.

GEORGE HERBERT.

(The Church: Sunday.)

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PREFACE.

MONG obligations which the Church of

Christ owes to the Author of the "Christian Year," may be included that of having, by his hymns, strengthened the bond which has joined together the Bible and the Prayer-book ;-of having promoted the profitable habit of associating, with each recurring Festival, some cognate topic of holy thought. That others should. have followed him in these useful adaptations, both in poetry and prose, -in hymns for the Christian seasons, and in cycles of sermons, on some part of the selected Scriptures for the day, is only another illustration of the truth, that when good men "rest from their labours," "their works do follow them."

Very unpretending is the contribution to the same desirable object, which is offered to the public, in the following pages. Based as the readings, contained in them, are upon some