“Cleanse thou me from secret faults, “ &c. --Ps. xix. 12-13.

“Who hath also sealed us,” &c. --2 Cor. i. 22.

“Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation,” &c. --Luke xix. 44.

“Sleep on now and take your rest, “ -- Mark xiv. 41.

“Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,” -- Heb. xii. 6.

Of two brothers who died on mountains.

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow, “ --Matt. vi. 34.

Of two brothers called Sons of thunder.

“By faith Moses, when he was come to years,” &c. --Heb. xi. 24.

Of the boy who had dreams that came true.

“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give,” &c. --Rev. ii. 10.

Of two prisoners’ dreams, and what came of them.

“Unto me who am less than the least of all saints,” --Eph. iii. 8.

Of a king’s dreams, and how Joseph’s came true at last.

Something more of how Joseph’s dreams came true.

“And when they had lifted up their eyes,” &c. --Matth. xvii. 8.

Of wonders wrought by a staff.

“And that from a child,” &c. --2 Tim. iii. 15.

Of more wonders wrought by the staff.

“Whom having not seen, ye love,” &c. --1 Peter. i. 8.

Of a great wonder wrought by a serpent of brass.

Of a wonder wrought by a mantle.

Of a wise queen’s visit to a wiser king.

“There they crucified him,” --Luke xxiii. 33.

Of the wicked queen Jezebel.

“And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum,” &c. --Matt. viii. 5-7.

Of a great battle fought without weapons of war.

“And he went on his journeys,” &c. --Gen. xiii. 3, 4.

Of God’s appearing to Elijah in Horeb.

“To testify the gospel of the grace of God,” --Acts xx. 24.

Of the voice in the wilderness.

“And being in Bethany,” &c. --Mark xiv. 3-9.

How the voice in the wilderness ceased to cry.

“Awake, O north wind, and come thou south,” &c. --Song iv. 16.

How the first Christian martyr died.

“And he went through the cities and villages,” &c. --Luke xiii. 22-30.

How a great persecutor became a great preacher.

How a prophet came to pray at the bottom of the sea.

“Behold my servant, whom I uphold,” &c. --Is. xlii. 1-4.

How the prophet, risen from the sea, preached at Nineveh, and what followed.

“The Lord hath need of them,” --Matt. xxi. 3.

How a great king came with thousands, and went back alone.

Of a lion which killed, but did not eat, his prey.

“Then said Jesus unto them plainly,” &c. --John xi. 14, 15.

Of the king of Judah whose name was foretold long before his birth.

“Let every one of us please his neighbour,” &c. --Rom. xv. 21.

How an angel went to prison, and what he did there.

“And Ittai answered the king, and said,” &c. --2 Sam. xv. 21.

How a little girl died, and was brought to life again.

“Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead,” --Rev. iii.

How Paul came to visit Europe, and what happened on his arrival there.

“Then cometh Jesus unto a place called Gethsemane,” &c. --Matt. xxvi. 36-38.

Of the family in Bethany.

“And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest,” &c. --Luke xxii. 60-62.

How Life met with Death, and what happened.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,” &c. --Is. xxvi. 3, 4.

Of the supper made to Jesus in Bethany, some days before his death.

“There was a certain rich man,” &c. --Luke xvi. 19-31.

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee.

“They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,” --Is. ix. 3.

They went through a fiery furnace.

How a great king came to eat grass like a beast.

“That the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,” --2 Thess. i. 12.

Of a strange hand that wrote words on the wall.

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,” &c. --Mark xii 30, 31.

He went through a den of lions

“The eternal God is thy refuge,” &c. --Deut. xxxiii.27.

How an orphan stranger came to be a queen.

“They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them,” --Luke xvi. 29.

How the wicked was caught in his own snare.

“And went up into a mountain to pray,” &c. --Luke ix. 28-31.

“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd,” --Is. xl. 11.

The story of Ruth--(continued).

“Bear ye one another’s burdens,” &c. --Gal. vi. 2.

Of Paul’s last visit to Jerusalem.

“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart,” &c. --Is. lvii. 1.

How Paul came to be sent to Rome.

“And the king said unto Barzillai,” &c. --2 Sam. xix. 33-37.

Through what perils Paul passed on his way to Rome.

“So he drove out the man,” &c. --Gen. iii. 24, and Rom. vii. 24, 25.

The upper room.

“He that endureth to the end shall be saved,” --Matt. x. 22.

“Thy dead men shall live,” &c. --Is. xxvi. 19.

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,” &c. --Rev. i. 7.

“For what is your life? It is even a vapour,” &c. --James iv. 14.

Archbishop of Canterbury

For the First Sunday of the New Year. - ”In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength,” --Isa. xxx. 14.