Short Notices of Seven Years' Work in a Country Parish (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Questions And Answers. THE following extracts will tell their own tale; they are introduced as specimens of the kind of friendly enquiries which have been made through the medium of the Magazine, and the way in which such enquiries have been answered. "To the Editor of Rownhams Parish Magazine. " Dear Mr. Editor, "You have kindly answered several questions through the medium of the Parish Magazine already, but instead of being satisfied we are emboldened to ask the more. " Would you kindly tell me what constitutes a Saint's Day a higher Festival than a Sunday ? I conclude that it is so, because you read the Epistle and Gospel, and Lessons, (if from the Bible,) appointed for the Saint's Day, in preference to those appointed for the Sunday, if the Saint's Day happens to fall on a Sunday; and because the Psalms are chanted at the Evening or Afternoon Service, and the Litany is sung, if it is a Saint's Day, which on common Sundays it is not always. " Perhaps as I have begun to trespass upon your time, I may enquire also, whether it is ever supposed that a former Epistle of St. Jude has been lost, as he seems to refer to one in the third verse. "Will you please tell us also, whether the School Expenses are covered now ? And believe me to be eyer "A Gratefitl Paeishioner. " Oct. 28th, 1868." "This letter is printed for the writer's satisfaction that it may not be supposed to be forgotten. It was received too late for insertion in the November number, and this month, the School Report takes up so much space, that there is not room for the answer, which must therefore be deferred till January. Meantime the writer will find a reply to the last question in the School Accounts." The following answer appeared in the next Magazine:? "To the P...