1786] REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D I93 



exact copy of the calendar as proposed) it would be wrong for the rea- 

 sons given in my last letter to interpose, lest by judging of that by 

 parts, which you had under review in the whole, I should injure the 

 texture, etc. These sentiments I wished you to consider as an answer 

 to your question concerning the calendar; being sensible also that you 

 muet have been possessed of the same way of judging and giving your 

 approbation to some parts which fell to my share in carrying on our 

 work. By just hinting to you not to forget the place of the Apostles', 



etc., or extra holy days, I imagined that you would conclude 



that I could depend fully on your execution of part, viz., the 



of lessons, as you have bestowed so much attention upon 



them. Yet, still I apprehend that I have not with sufficient clearness, 

 expressed what I wished about inserting in the calendar the days to 

 which I referred in my last. I did not mean that they should stand in 

 a separate table or paper, but in the monthly calendar, as they now 

 stand. Thus in January, the Circumcision is ist day, Epiphany 6th, 

 Conversion of St. Paul the 25th. These are all which should stand for 

 that month. The rest, as Lucian P., Hilary Bishop, Prisca V., and 

 other legendaries, Fabian, Agnes, Vincent, and even King Charles 

 Martyr, all expunged, and thirty of the rest, of the other months, in 

 order that when the minister casts his eye on the monthly calendars, he 

 may be reminded when any of those days happen on Sunday, or on 

 Prayer Days, that he may take the Collects and Lessons, with the Epis- 

 tles and Gospels accordingly; if he thinks it proper ox desired by his 

 hearers, especially the female part, on Wednesdays and Fridays. I 

 think we must not make our service too naked, nor will these days, viz., 

 St. Paul, the Johns, Andrew, etc., be parted with all at once nor does 

 it seem necessary. A proper use of those days tends to edification, 

 and gives some further knowledge of the History of the Bible. 



On casting my eye on the singing psalms, I perceive some typo- 

 graphical errors. Psalm 28, v. 2. 



When tJioii to seek thy glorious face 

 Thou kindly, etc. 



The first ''thou'''' is "■us'''' in the original, and would be better " fiie.''^ 

 As it now stands, the first thou makes nonsense. Again, Psalm 38, v. 

 1st, line third wants 2ifoot, viz., the word "the" before cherubs. How 

 many little errors typographical of this kind may be, I have not ex- 

 amined ; but will spend a few hours in looking over the whole book, 

 that if the errors be of any consideration, we may put a little table of 

 corrections at the end. Psalm 21 does not seem to stand under any 

 metre at all. I see some parts of the psalms appropriated for particular 

 days as hymns, as 104 — also some verses applicable only to the cruci- 

 fixion, are in the general collection — which will make some repetitions; 

 but as they are but a {q.\n verses I would not have anything omitted, in. 



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