Calendar: 1864-1865 Page 508

510 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT as generosity ingenuity and good-nature impoverish and ruin him This cannot but have proportionable effect on men whose tempers and principles are equally good and vicious There would be at least this advantage in employing men of learning and parts in business that their prosperity would sit more grace- fully on them and that we should not see many worthless persons shot up into the greatest figures of life HI Hiturgi anli 0mtlcttc Cijtologt Give briefly the history and rationale of the use of Creeds in Divine Service By what names have they been known Give short sketch of the rise and progress of Church Music and Hymnology What directions does the English Church give respecting singing other than the chanting of Psalms and Canticles Describe the origin and earliest form of Litanies and notice the arrangement of our present English Litany Point out where the Occasional Prayers and Thanks- givings bear traces of the times in which they originated Are any of them derived from ancient sources Trace the origin of the principal Festivals of the Church- year Point out the principle of the arrangement of the Epistles and Gospels between Pentecost and Advent Sunday Whence is it derived How does it differ from those of Rome and Con- stantinople What principles must be kept in view in the composition of sermon in order that the style may be perspicuous and interesting Give few instances of the effect produced by the mere change of the order of words in sentence