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S. B. lights, with whom is no variableness, neither B. A. shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

YE

The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 43.

Pure

E have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on

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S. B. the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on B. A. 294 the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

RESOLUTION X.

Resolved: That the following Form of
Prayer, entitled

A SHORT OFFICE OF PRAYER FOR
SUNDRY OCCASIONS,

be added to the Book of Common Prayer,
to be placed next after The Proper Order
for Prayer and Thanksgiving on Thanks-
giving-day, or Harvest-Home, and that the
proposed addition be made known to the
several Dioceses, in order that it may be
adopted in the next General Convention,
in accordance with the provisions of Article
VIII of the Constitution.

A SHORT OFFICE OF PRAYER FOR
SUNDRY OCCASIONS.

This Office may be used at Noon-day Ser-
vices, Missionary Meetings, the Visitation of
Families and Neighbourhoods, the Catechiz-
ing of Children in Churches or Schools, and
on other like occasions, for which no special
Order of Prayer hath been appointed.

¶ The Minister shall begin the Office by reading
one or more of the following Sentences of

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