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The Evening Meetings, Or, the Pastor Among the Boys of His Flock, by C.m.s.
The Evening Meetings Or the Pastor Among the Boys of His Flock by Cms Author:C M. S General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PREFACE, ADDRESSED TO THE LADS OP M- T DESIRE to place this little work in your hands, hoping that by the blessing of G-ob it may be useful to you. You have been baptized in the Church of England, and are in the habit of attending her services, and it is my wish to assist you and other youths also in understanding and profiting by these services. If you read this book with care you will see that I have endeavoured to make the Morning and Evening Services plain in their meaning, but my chief object has been to lead you so to enter into them that your daily lives should be in agreement with your prayers, and that you may feel their practical value as guides to truth as well as to holiness. In the Prayer Book God has given us a great blessing, and I would hope that you may have grace to abide by that sound teaching in which you have been brought up, and to show by Christian conduct that you are true members of Christ's holy Church. May G-od give His blessing to this work. THE EVENING MEETINGS; OB, pastor among tfje 23ogs of Ijts JFIocft. CHAPTER I. is our last meeting before the Confirmation," said Mr. Weston, to the class of elder boys whom he had been preparing for that solemn rite ; " but I hope often to see you here after it. You are entering on a more advanced course of Christian life, taking your place among the elder members of the Church of Christ : and about to receive the strengthening of the Holy Spirit and to make an open profession before God and man that you stand to the vows of your Baptism, and are resolved to follow Christ, fighting like true soldiers under the banner of His C...« less