DAYS AND VIGILS Original and Selected WITH A PREFACE BY THE LORD BISHOP OF DERRY "Meanwhile with every son and Saint of Thine Sitting by turns beneath Thy sacred feet, Know them by look and voice, and thank them all For words of hope and bright examples given, RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON MDCCCLXXXIII 141. n. 351. LOVINGLY AND REVERENTLY TO THE DEAR AND SACRED MEMORY OF R. C. A. M., WHO WAS CALLED FROM GREAT SUFFERING ON EARTH TO JOIN THE SAINTS IN PARADISE, AUGUST 1, 1832. "Make us to be numbered with Thy Saints in glory everlasting." THE principle which is the life of the Church's observance of Saints' Days has been illustrated in the pages of an old commentator* by an anecdote in ecclesiastical history, and enforced by a little-studied text of Scripture. The anecdote is to be found in the "Confessions" of St. Augustine.t Somewhere about A.D. 385, an officer of the Imperial Guard, and a few of his comrades, slipped away while the Emperor was occupied one afternoon with the Circensian games at Trèves, and lounged in some gardens adjacent to the walls of the city. Two of the party found their way into a cottage, which was occupied by certain * Cornelius à Lapide on 3 John v. 11. a 3 |