FOR THE CHRISTIAN SEASONS. THIRD SERIES. EDITED BY THE REV. JAMES RUSSELL WOODFORD, M.A., VICAR OF KEMPSFORD; EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD. VOL. IV. HOLYDAYS. OXFORD, AND 377, STRAND, LONDON: JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. 1864. Tracts for the Christian Seasons. ST. ANDREW. HY should we think of the saints? WHY How is it that the Church sets apart holy days from time to time to be kept in memory of the saints? The saints lived and died. They ran their course, and finished it. They are gone from this world. What are they to us, or what are we to them now? That our hearts should be set on God, that we should love Him, live for Him, we can all of us well understand, for we owe all we have and all we are to Him. The Church, then, it is obvious, does well to bring before us in her solemn round of services, the love of God and the power of God. She does well to remind us again and again of the outlines of the moral history of our race, how the hand of God made us and the world about us, how we |