Note, That in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same as if Easterday had fallen one day later than it really does. And, for the same reason, one day must, in every Leap-Year, be added to the day of the month given by the Table for Septuagesima Sunday, and for the first day of Lent; unless the Table gives some day in the month of March for it; for in that case, the day given by the Table is the right day. name shall be great d in every place inhto my name, and a s a common period of me of St. Cyprian, and was not long after, that to be more devout than er hours of stated prayer. ily devotion had increasPope Pelagius the Sem by a decree, and proor the several "Canoniof the Reformation, our brought back the periods primitive usage, and enng and evening prayer." has appointed these two she does not thereby exrom the essential duty of periods for retirement to all men. We may worperiod of the day, and in », by short mental ejaculaed times for private devoy estimated. Such is the that a duty, which we think time, we are apt to defer alate our conduct by fixed rules. rches, in England, the reguconstantly performed. But untry parishes will not adworship; nor is it practicaches of this country. But esidences, and the secular 5, will not permit them to Ic worship, none can be exf Family Devotions. And of the Church, has set forth be used in Families," well stances and their wants.es, therefore, who live in the se daily morning and evening ⚫ benevolent intentions of the of the most interesting bands while they are deficient in a -- སི་ ྃ, ཨི་ ཅ་ པ་ ལ་ A TABLE TO FIND EASTER DAY, THE Golden Numbers in the foregoing Calendar will point out the Days of the Paschal full Moons, till the year of our Lord 1900; (1.) at which Time, in order that the Ecclesiastical Full Moons may fall nearly on the same Days with the real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be removed to different Days of the Calendar, as is done in the annexed Table, which contains so much of the Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for finding the Paschal full Moons, and the Feast of Easter, from the Year 1900, to the Year 2199, inclusive. This Table is to be made use of, in all respects, as the First Table, before inserted, for finding Easter till the Year 1899. 14 3 23 24 11 25 19 88 16 5 April 13 10 222233 26 27 28 29 Ꭰ 30 31 1 2 4 18 7 8 91 DEFGABCDEFGARCDEFGABCDEFGARCDEFGABC Ꮐ А Ꮐ 24 25 (1.) In the English Book, there is a note underneath the months of March and April, in the Calendar, intended to show the use of the golden numbers, in a column attached to these months only. It is as follows. "The numbers here prefixed to the several days, between the 21st day of March, and the 18th day of April, both inclusive, denote the days upon which those full moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the 21st day of March, in those years, of which they are respectively the golden numbers: and the Sunday letter next following any such full moon points out Easter Day for that year. All which holds until the year of our Lord 1899 inclusive; after which year, the place of these golden numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter expressed." "On investigating this subject," says Bishop White, "we found that the note was wanting in the prayer books edited before the adoption of the Gregorian style in 1751, but was found in all the succeeding editions consulted. From these circumstances it seems probable, that in making out the calendar for the American church, there was taken a book prior to the said date. The column, with the golden numbers, may have been called for at the crisis of the change of style; but, as it is insufficient for the finding of Easter, from its not showing how the golden numbers are to be found; and as this, with the whole process for the finding of the festival, is provided for by a table appropriated to that object; it was thought proper to omit the column and the figures included in it." T. C. B. |