THE

Minor Festivals

DEVOTIONALLY STUDIED,

BY

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI,

AUTHOR OF "SEEK AND FIND."

"He are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.”

I COR. iii. 9.

“That our sons may grow up as the young plants:
and that our daughters may be as the polishes corners
of the temple."-Ps. cxliv. 12.

OCT 1881

GODTERANA

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IN HOPE OF OUR RE-UNION,

ΤΟ

THE DEAR AND GRACIOUS MEMORY

OF

My Sister.

HOOKER, in Book 5 of his Ecclesiastical Polity, speaking of Saints' Days, tells us :

"They are the splendour and outward dignity of our religion, forcible witnesses of ancient truth, provocations to the exercise of all piety, shadows of our endless felicity in heaven, on earth everlasting records and memorials, wherein they that cannot be drawn to hearken unto that we teach, may only by looking upon that we do, in a manner read whatsoever we believe."