O LORD, WHO FOR OUR SAKE DIDST FAST FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS; GIVE US GRACE TO USE SUCH ABSTINENCE, THAT OUR FLESH BEING SUBDUED TO THE SPIRIT, WE MAY EVER OBEY THY GODLY MOTIONS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUE HOLINESS, TO THY HONOR AND GLORY, WHO LIVEST AND REIGNEST WITH THE FATHER AND THE HOLY GHOST, ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END.

AMEN.

COLLECT FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT.

THE OBJECT OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH IN INSTI

TUTING THE HOLY SEASON OF LENT.

Welcome, dear feast of Lent! who loves not thee,
He loves not temperance, or authority,

But is composed of passion.

The Scriptures bid us fast; the Church says now;
Give to thy mother, what thou wouldst allow

To every corporation.

"The Church," by HERBERT.