Read the Rubrick.

Instruction.--When the Minister and the people have praised God with one heart and one voice, they join together in making a public profession of their Faith, in which every one speaks for himself only, but uses the common form of the Church, to testify openly that he holds the common faith. A common form of declaring belief in all the Articles of the Christian Faith is called a Creed: there are three Creeds belonging to the Church of England, each of which contains the same doctrine as the rest, expressed in different words the first of these is called the Apostles Creed, because it contains a summary of all the doctrines taught by the Apostles. This is the same Creed which you have learned in the Cate-chism.

Repeat the Creed with the Children.

Questions.---What is a Creed? [Ans. A solemn profession: of faith.] Why is this Creed called the Apostles Creed? [Ans. Because the Apostles believed and taught what is in it.] How is this known? [Ans. By their writings.] Why does every person say, I believe, instead of we believe? [Ans. Because he speaks for himself only.] Is the Creed a prayer? [Ans. No. Do not many ignorant people make use of it as a prayer? [Ans. Yes.] What is it? [Ans. A solemn profession of faith.]

Instruction.---As you go through the New Testament Lessons, you will see that all the articles of this Creed are founded upon Scripture, and I hope you will soon not only firmly believe them all, but that you will likewise be able to give a good reason why you do so, for it is not enough that we profess with our lips, we must also believe with our hearts, if we would be saved.

Questions.---Where are we to seek for proofs that the articles of the Creed are true [Ans. In the New Testament.] Is it sufficient if you join with the congregation at Church, in saying, I believe in God the Father Almighty, and so on? [Ans. No.] What must you do besides? [Ans. Believe in your heart.] Ought you not to study the Scriptures then in order to know that the Creed you profess to believe, is really founded upon Scripture? [Ans. Yes.] Did not your Godfathers and Godmothers promise for you, that you should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith? [Ans. Yes.] Are you not bound to do so? [Ans, Yes...

Read the Rubrick, following the Creed, and what follows, to the other Rubrick, the Children joining making the responses as at Church.

Instruction.---After having declared their firm belief in all the articles of the Christian Faith, the Minister and congregation proceed to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul; the Minister prays for the people, and they in return for him, that the Lord may be present with their spirits, to accept and grant their petitions, and they very properly begin with the Lord's Prayer, which is followed by some short ejaculation relating to the principal things a Christian congregation should pray for. By God's chosen people, and the Lord's inheritance, we are to understand the members of Christ's Church on earth, who will be members of his kingdom in heaven. We pray God to make clean our hearts, because they can no way be cleansed from the defilement of sin, but by the sanctification of the Holy Spirit.

Questions.---Do not all Ministers and all people stand in need of God's mercy and his salvation? [ns. Yes.] What is meant by God's salvation? [Ans. Salvation through Christ.] Should not Christian people, when assembled together in God's house, pray for the King? [Ans. Yes.] Can Ministers themselves have righteousness but through Christ? [Ans. No.] Who are God's chosen people and his inheriiance? [Ans. The members of Christ's Church on earth.] Who alone can cause wars to cease, and give to nations the blessings of peace [Ans. God.] Who alone can give victory in battle [Ans. God.] How alone can our hearts be cleansed from the defilement of sin? [Ans. By God's Holy Spirit.] What is the greatest misfortune that can happen to us in this world? [Ans. For God to take his Holy Spirit from us.] What must we do if we would have the help of the Holy Spirit.continued to us? [Ans. Pray to God for it.]

Read the Rubrick, and shew the Children how to find the Collects for all the Sundays in the year, and tell them that the first Collect varies every week, but that the two following ones are used every day in the year. They should be required to learn by heart the Collect for every Sunday and the Expla

nation of it should make a part of the Day's Instructions.

Read the Second Collect for Peace, the Children following with their eyes in their Prayer Books.

Question.---Is not inward peace necessary both for our bodies and our souls? [Ans. Yes.] What do we pray God to defend us from, in order that we may enjoy peace? [Ans. The assaults of our enemies.] Have not most people some enemies in this world, who would hurt them if God did not protect them? Ans. Yes.] Have not all people spiritual enemies who would assault and hurt their souls, if God did not hinder them? [Ans. Yes.] Who is our great spiritual enemy? [Ans. The Devil.] Does not God know what our eternal life will be? [Ans. Yes.] Are we not free to chuse whether we will serve him or not? [Ans. Yes.] What is God's service very properly called in this Collect? [Ans. Perfect freedom.] Who shall we be slaves to if we leave the service of God? [Ans. Satan.] Shall not we lose all freedom, if we become slaves to Satan? [Ans. Yes.]

Read the Third Collect to the Children.

Questions.---What is this Collect for? [Ans. Grace.] What is meant by grace? [Ans. God's favour.] What should we acknowledge every morning? [Ans. God's goodness in bringing us to the beginning of another day.] What should we pray God to do for us? [Ans. To defend us in the same.] Can we be safe for a moment without God's help? [Ans. No.] What are we likely to fall into through the temptations of Satan? [Ans. Sin.] Are we not exposed to many dangers every day? [Ans. Yes.] Who alone can preserve us? [Ans. God.] How should we wish all our doings to be ordered? [Ans. By God's Providence.] What should we wish always to do? [Ans. That which is righteous in God's. sight.] Through whose merits alone can we do righteous works? [Ans. Christ's.]

Read the Rubrick..

Instruction.The Quire, or as it is more usually called,. the Choir, is a part of the Cathedral in which a set of singers called Choristers sing the Psalms and Hymns in the Church. Service, and beside; them Anthems, which are usually taken from Scripture. In common Churches it is sometimes the

practice for the congregation to sing a Psalm at this part of the service; but sometimes a set of singers do it by themselves, in such a way that the congregation cannot join; which is very wrong. The Litany is only used on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Read the Prayer for the King's Majesty.

Questions--Does not the King stand in need of the help of the Holy Spirit, to enable him to do his duty? [Ans. Yes.] Are not the King's enemies the enemies of the nation? [Ans.. Yes.] What ought we to pray that he may do? [Ans. Overcome them.] Is not the King's mortal life a life of great care? [Ans. Yes.] What should we pray that the King may finally attain? [Ans. Everlasting joy and felicity.]

Read the Prayer for the Royal Family.

Questions---Who are the Royal Family? [Ans. The King's family.] Ought we not to pray for these blessings. upon the Queen and Royal Family? [Ans, Yes.]

Read the Prayer for the Clergy.

Instruction.---By Curates are here meant Parish Priests, whose employment in the Church is called a Cure. The name of Curate is commonly given to Clergymen who have no livings of their own, but officiate for others. Without Ministers, the people would be like sheep having no shepherd, and it is a great blessing to the Church to have an order of men set apart for the ministry. The word marvel, signifies wonderful things: it is a great marvel that the ministry should have been kept up according to the institution of the Apostles, to the present time; nor would it have been so, but by means of the Holy Spirit descending upon them and their congregations; not indeed after the manner in which He came upon the Apostles, but silently and unperceived like the dew of heaven. Those preachers who pretend to be inspired as the Apostles were, mislead their con gregations, and deceive themselves.

Questions.---Is it not a great blessing to have Ministers ? [Ans. Yes.] Why is the gift of the Holy Ghost to the Clergy compared to dew? [Ans. Because it comes gently.] Are we to expect Preachers to be inspired as the Apostles were? [Ans. No.] Should we not take care that we are not led astray by those who pretend or fancy themselves to be so? [Ans. Yes.]

Read the Prayer of St. Chrysostom.

Instruction.---St. Chrysostom was a pious Christian who fived near the time of the Apostles. Common supplications signify the prayers in which the whole congregation join.

Questions.---Should we pray to God to grant us every thing we appear to ourselves to stand in need of? [Ans. No.] What things should we pray God to grant us? [Ans. Those that are most expedient for us:] What have we most need of in this world? [Ans. The knowledge of God's Word.] What do we want in the world to come? [Ans. Everlasting life.] Are not the last petitions the things that we should above all others desire? [Ans. Yes.]

Read the concluding Prayer.

Instruction.---This Prayer is in the very words of Scripture, and it makes a very proper Conclusion to the Service of the Christian Church, as it is a solemn invocation to the blessed Trinity, for the continuance of God's best gifts. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, signifies his divine favour to us. The love of God, signifies God's love to us as his children through Christ Jesus. The fellowship of the Holy Ghost, means fellowship with all the members of Christ's Church in the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit.

Questions.---What are God's best gifts to mankind? [Ans. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost.] Should we not desire these above all other gifts? [Ans. Yes.] What is to be said at the end of all the Prayers? [Ans. Amen.]

INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE EVENING PRAYERS:

DIRECTIONS FOR THE TEACHER.

Observe to the Children, that the Evening Service is the same as the Morning Service as far as the First Lesson, but that the Hymns and the Collects are different, and let them have their Prayer Books to examine them.

Questions.---What does the Evening Service begin with? [Ans. The Sentences.] Are they the same as in the morning? [Ans. Yes.] Who reads them? [Ans. The Minister.]