attain to the light of everlasting life, through Jesus our Lord. Amen."
Such too is the close of the Prayer for the whole state of Christ's
Church militant here on earth, offered in our Anglican service,--"We
bless thy holy name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith
and fear, beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good
examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom.
Grant this, O Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ our only Mediator and
Advocate. Amen."

[Footnote 93: The references will generally be given to the
Roman Breviary as edited by F.C. Husenbeth, Norwich, 1830. That
work consists of four volumes, corresponding with the four
quarters of the ecclesiastical year--Winter, Hiem.; Spring,
Vern.; Summer, _Æstiv_.; Autumn, Aut.; and the volumes will be
designated by the corresponding initials, H. V. Æ. A.]

[Footnote 94: "Ecclesiam, tuam, Domine, benignus illustra, ut
beati Johannis Apostoli tui et evangelistæ illuminata doctrinis,
ad dona perveniat sempiterna. Per Dominum."--Husen. H. p. 243.]

II. The second stage supplies examples of a kind of rhetorical
apostrophe; the speaker addressing one who was departed as though he had
ears to hear. Were not this the foundation stone on which the rest of
the edifice seems to have been built, we might have passed it by
unnoticed. Of this we have an instance in the address to the Shepherds
on Christmas-day. "Whom have ye seen, ye shepherds? Say ye, tell ye, who
hath appeared on the earth? Say ye, what saw ye? Announce to us the
nativity of Christ[95]."

[Footnote 95: Quem vidistis, Pastores? Dicite, Annunciate nobis.