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110 ECCLESIASTICAL

HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS.

“Aveste, Hiveles.””

L ‘Ye Faithful, now rejoice ‘With one exulting voice ! ‘The Babe appears in Betlilehem ‘Who weareth Judah’s diadem. Him, then, let all adore.

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Behold ! on this bright morn

‘The King of Kings is born,

The holy Angels’ King and ours,

‘The Lord of Seraphs, Thrones and Powers! Him, then, let all adore!

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‘The God of God in might,

‘The living Light of Light,

He cometh from the Virgin’s womb

To save the world from death and doom. Him, then, let all adore!

IW ‘Yes! Hira let all adore, ‘True God for evermore, ‘Not forined or made, but as was meet, Begotten of the Paraclete.

Him, Him, let all adore!

ve Let men and angels raise ‘To him the song of praise! Let Heaven and Earth combine to sing In choral unison their king.

Him, Him, let all adore!

ve To Him who comes this day With power to take away Man's misery, and retrieve his fa Be glory given by each and all! Him, Him, let all adore!

vu. Be glory given to Him ‘Who o'er the Cherubim ‘Reigns unbeginning Goa and J.ord, Be glory to the Flesh-made Word ! Him, Him, let all adore! ee

Ecclesiastical Architecture,

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ARCHITECTURE. (May, with the greatest urtistie beauties. The floor, zlows with encaustic tiles of various beautiful and mystic devices, and with monumental brasses,f containing pious aspirations for the eternal happiness of those whom they commemorate. Looking forward to the chancel, you will find it divided from the main portion of the church by a screen of exquisite design and work- manship, bearing aloft the hely read, or representation of our Lord on the cross, with figures of his blessed Mother, and the beloved disciple. Often was the screen decorated with groups of sculptare, brilliant colours, and gilding, and not unfrequently, with precious stones.

it was lavished the highest efforts of artistic genius. This was the sent of the ndorable mysteries, and glories that radiated from its sanctuary were sugges- e of the heavenly Jerusalem of which it was the faint and imperfect type. The chapels dedicated to our blessed Lady, the patron, and other saints, were kept in due subordination to the chancel, whic! the “Holy of Holies ;” but often the pious zeal an liberality of the founders made them appropriate ad- juncts of the sacred locality. The windows were too convenient opportunities for the display of varied beau- ties to be neglected ; and hence we find them not only filled with delicate and intricate tracery in stone, but bright with “celestial radiance.” A pious poet,t whom we can now number amongst the reconciled and faith- ful children of the one Catholic Church, says,

“1 saw the sunbeams steal

‘Through painted glass at even song, and weave

‘Their three-fold tints upon the marble near

Faith, Prayer, and Love.” Here were united all glowing and contrasted tints, yet producing one harmonious effect; nor were these colours arranged in meaningless display, from them shone forth subjects from Scripture and Church his- tory, and edifying representations of fath martyrs of the church, or they served as beat memorials of the departed faithful. Unity of design pervaded all. It was not sufficient that windows, and floor, and chancel, and screen were so decorated, but the walls and roofs had also their appropriate adorn- ments. Pious texts, or suitable frescoes, covered the former, while the roofs glowed again with colours, and gilding. In open wooden roofs, the spaces between the taftera were covered with azure and spangled with stars. But, in fact, to examine and enumerate the Various beauties of details, the canopied niches, the

David saith: ‘adhacsit pavimento anima

cleaved unto the pavement.’ The language of St. Paul has con-

secrated the pillare as an allusion to the apostles and great doctors

of the church ; James, Cephas, and Jobn, saith h

pillars. The windows ii

which repel the wind and rai

the light of the true sun, ie. God, w it Y are wider within than without, because the mystical sense is

the more ample, and precedcth the literal meaning. Also, by the

windows the senses of the body are signified, which ought to be

floved to the vanities of this world, and open to receive with all

ritual gifts’?

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