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Matins, December 21: Job 42, v. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Evensong, December 21: Isaiah 35, vv. 3-4

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

Matins, December 22: Isaiah 55, v. I Ho, every one that thirsteth, come yc to the waters, and he that bath no money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Evensong, December 22: Isaiah 56, v. 2 The Lord bath utterly separated me from his people.

Matins, December 23: Isaiah 57, v. 8 For thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them.

Evensong, December 23: Isaiah 58, v. 2 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness.

Matins, December 24: Isaiah 59, vv. 9-10

We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night.

Evensong, December 24: Isaiah 60, v. 22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a nation.

Matins, Christmas Day: Isaiah 9, v. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.

Evensong, Christmas Day: Isaiah 7, v. 11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Matins. December 26: Genesis 4, v. 7.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be ac- cepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

Evensong, December 26: II Chronicles 24, v. 15 But dehoida waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

Matins, December 27: Exodus 33, v. 13 Consider that this nation is thy people. Evensong, December 27: Isaiah 6, v. 11

Then, said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without in- habitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.