But it is certain that they resembled the services of the Jewish synagogue in the readings from Scripture, psalm-singing and prayers, and differed from those services by having readings from the Gospels, the Epistles, and from non-canonical books, such as the Epistle of St. Clement.

Some notion of city taste, however, has gone abroad in the country, and the choirs, although old-fashioned in their organization, are not quite content with the psalm-books of old time, and are constantly asking for something newer and better.

How can life be worth living when you're drivelling psalm tunes all day long?" John laughed, and there was a new note of gladness in his voice which Reginald was quick to notice.

The whole lot must have either something or nothing in them, must be either useful or useless; parsons must be either sharp or stupid, sensible or foolish; priests must be either learned or illiterate, either good, bad, or indifferent; in all, from the rector in his silken gown to the back street psalm-singer in his fustian, there must be something worth praising or condemning.

"Well, the psalm-shouter let me outjerked the piller-slip from under me, you might sayand turned me adrift.

These offices were drastic innovations, introduced to get rid of the very long psalm arrangement of the ferial office.

33; Chronicles x. 16; Psalms lxxxii.

"We desire not the knowledge of his ways, we will have none of him," Psalm lxxxi.

And again at Vespers, from the same tribune, he heard the peal of the new great organs in the dome, and the psalm-melodies rocking from side to side between the massed choirs; he glanced now and again at the royal tribune opposite, where, each beneath a canopy, the rulers of the earth sat together to do honour to the Lord and His Anointed.

" "We will now sing psalm number two hundred and twenty-three.

Clément Marot took to psalm-writing in his old age.

But the selection of psalms accords well with the idea of the hournight prayerand with the other prayers, which go to make up the close of the Office of the day.

Psalm xvi., 16.

The minister simply looked at him, and remarked, "Eh, man, your psalm-buik has been ill bund.

Its grave, majestic hymnal measure adds to its solemn beauty and stateliness, while the varied phases of spiritualized thought and emotional grief which find expression in the poem seem to elevate it in its harmonies to the rank of a profound psalm-chant from the choir of heaven.

Psalm cxix, 63.

"Psalm cxlviii. {161} This was the opinion of Anaxagoras, one of the Ionic philosophers, born at Clazomene, in the first year of the seventieth Olympiad.

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity.'" Leslie Goldthwaite's face quickened and glowed; they were the psalm lines that had haunted her thought yesterday, among the opening visions of the hill-country.

Psalm lxxx, 14.