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Probably it is because the custom has so largely spread, and is so general now, that such statistics as the above are no longer published. The practice belongs now to no one section in the Church, but has taken its place once more among the practices, and universal customs, of ordinary Christian devotion. It is satisfactory to know that we join with so large a number of our fellow-Churchmen in daily worship.
" There are in this loud, stunning tide
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th' everlasting chime;
Who carry music in their heart
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart,
Plying their daily task with busier feet,
Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat."
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th' everlasting chime;
Who carry music in their heart
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart,
Plying their daily task with busier feet,
Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat."
Christian Year.
