COMMEMORATION OF A MARTYR. AT THE FIRST VESPERS. Have not I commanded thee? be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.-JOSHUA i. "Ex quo salus mortalium." OUR Lord the path of suffering trod, No shame to own the Crucified, Nay, 'tis our immortality That we confess our God who died, And for Him die. Fill'd with this thought with patient smile Seeing above the golden crown, Into death's arms he willing goes; Dying, he conquers death; o'erthrown, O'erthrows his foes. Thus one doth vanquish strong-arm'd bands, Lord, make us thine own soldiers true, Eternal Father of the Word, Eternal Son, we Thee adore, Eternal Spirit, God and Lord, For evermore. AT MIDNIGHT. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel's, the same shall save it.-MARK viii. "Felix morte tuâ, qui cruciatibus." How happy the mortal, Through pains and dismay, Where death hath benighted, The faith that he plighted, Our weak spirits languish Yet nothing confounded, With rack and with chains, Where death hath abounded With tortures and pains. Lo, from highest Heaven, His hand hath He holden, His Spirit doth embolden, Shall we then soft-hearted And sing the departed In death and stern woes? Let such themes of wonder Arouse us from sleep, Lest, woke by death's thunder We wake but to weep. Great Father, Son, Spirit, And sing of Thy praise. AT THE MATTINS. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.-REV. iii. "Jam non te lacerant carnificum manus." FEAR no more for the torturer's hand, Fear no more for the clanking chain, The stripes that mark'd thy frame with pain, |