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IV. The Table of Holy Days. 



The following Days are to be kept Holy by this Church, viz. : 



All the Sundays in the year in the Order enumerated in the Table of Proper Lessons 

 with their respective Services. 

 Christmas. 

 Circumcision. 

 Epiphany. 



Easter Day, Monday and Tuesday. 

 Ascension Day. 

 Whit-Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 



The following Days are to be observed as Da3-s of Fasting, viz. : 



Good Friday and Ash Wednesday. 



The following Days are to be observed as Days of Thanksgiving, viz. : 



The 4th of July, in commemoration of American Independence. 

 The First Thursday in November as a Day of General Thanksgiving. 



After the alterations, abridgments, additions and modifications 

 in the Liturgy which we have spoken of ftbove, under our Head II, 

 had been agreed to by the Convention, they Avere proposed and 

 recommended to the Church in those States from which there were 

 deputies to the Convention; and the Articles of Religion as pre- 

 sented in their new form were recommended to the Church to be 

 by them adopted in the next General Convention. Nothing as 

 yet was in print ; but the new Liturgy being transcribed and 

 having been read, Divine Service according to it was held in 

 Christ Church, Dr. White saying the prayers and the Rev. Dr. 

 Smith preaching a sermon, as he had been requested by the 

 Convention to do, " suited to the solemn occasion of the Conven- 

 tion." This proceeding took place October 7th, 1785. The text 

 is from St. Luke, chap, xiv., ver. 23 : 



And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and 

 compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 



The earlier part of the discourse probably had not been written 

 for this special occasion, and may have been used merely as a 

 suitable introduction for more particular matter. The preacher 

 begins : 



In the parable, of wliich the words of my text are a part, the unspeak- 

 able happiness of the kingdom of God, as begun in the hearts of 

 believers in this world, and to be consiunmated in the world to come, 

 is represented under, the figure of a great Feast, or Supper, to wliich 



