also by the same solemn act, the Apostles of our Lord communicated the gift of the Holy Ghost for the confirmation of believers after their baptism.

Then, addressing the Catechumens, he shall say:

DEARLY BELOVED: As children of your heavenly Father, called to a holy priesthood in the Church, to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God by Jesus Christ, you are now to receive the solemn rite of Confirmation by the laying on of hands, as your full and formal consecration to His holy service.

In this sacred ordinance, you on your part renew and ratify the promise and vow made in your baptism; whilst the Church, in God's stead, claims you publicly for His service, blesses you in His name, and confirms you in His covenant, invoking upon you in larger measure the Holy Ghost, by whose help alone you are able to fulfil your vows by leading holy and obedient lives.

Then shall the Minister address to the Catechumens the following questions, to which the answer shall be given audibly by each one.

Dost thou now, in the presence of God and of this Congregation, renew the solemn promise and vow made in your name at your baptism? Dost thou ratify and confirm the same, and acknowledge thyself bound to believe and to do all those things which your parents then undertook for you?

Ans. I do.

Dost thou renounce the Devil with all his ways and works, the world with its vain pomp and glory, and the flesh with all its sinful desires?

Ans. I do.

Then the Minister shall say:

Profess now your faith before God and this congre gation.

Here, the Congregation standing, the Catechumens led by the Minister shall repeat the Apostles' Creed, as follows:

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hades; the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Minister. Our help is in the name of the Lord; Congregation. Who hath made heaven and

earth.

M. Blessed be the name of the Lord;

C. Henceforth, world without end.

M. Lord, hear our prayer;

C. And let our cry come unto Thee.

M. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who out of infinite mercy in Christ Jesus, hast caused these Thy servants

to be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them the remission of their sins; strengthen them, we beseech Thee, O Lord, through the Holy Ghost, the Comforter; and daily increase in them the manifold gifts of Thy grace, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, now and forever. Amen..

Then, the Congregation still standing, the Catechumens shall kneel, and the Minister, laying his hand on the head of each one successively, shall say:

I

The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Here all shall kneel.

M. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly Father, we render Thee thanks for the great mercy Thou hast been pleased to show toward these Thy servants, by giving them power this day publicly to own and accept for themselves Thy covenant of salvation made with them before in the sacrament of Baptism, and by cou firming unto them at this time the same grace through the solemn benediction of Thy holy Church. And now, O Lord, we beseech Thee to verify and fulfil in them the truth of this glorious covenant unto the end, that as they have been introduced into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and made to have part in its privileges and hopes, they may be

constantly kept in the same by the power of the Holy Ghost, through faith, unto everlasting life. Fortify them against the assaults of sin and hell. Let not Satan prevail against them. Keep them from the evil that is in the world. Help them to walk in the Spirit, that they may not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Defend them from all heresy and schism, from all apostasy and unbelief. Let them never draw back to perdition. Make them faithful unto death, that no man may take from them their crown. And grant, O most merciful Father, that having continued thus steadfast in faith and hope to the end, they may be counted worthy to be joined with Thy saints in heaven, and to have part with them finally in the resurrection of the dead; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Minis.er shall dismiss the Catechumens, saying:

The peace of God which passeth all understanding, keep your heart and mind, through Christ Jesus. Amen.

MARRIAGE.

At the day and time appointed, the persons to te married shall come into the body of the Church, or shall be ready in some proper house, with their friends and neighbors; and there standing together, tae Man on the right hand, and the Woman on the left, the Minister shall say:

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

DEARLY BELOVED: We are assembled, in the sight of God and of His holy angels, to join together this man and this woman in the bonds of Matrimony; which is an honorable estate, instituted of God in the time of man's innocency, confirmed by the teaching of our blessed Saviour, and compared by St. Paul to the mystical union, which subsists between Christ and His Church.

Into this holy estate these two perscns are come to be joined. Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.

And then addressing the persons to be married, he shall say:

I charge you each and both, as ye will answer before God at the day of judgment, if either of you