Excerpt from Hymns on the Collects for Every Sunday in the Year Collects found in the Book of Common Prayer, must be apparent to all devout observ ers. They are so short and simple that no at tentive mind could fail to follow them, and so impressive that no praying heart could fail to feel them. Brief as they are, they are also so comprehensive that they seem to touch upon all the needs of a Christian soul, and all the doctrines of a Christian creed. They are in gots of precious ore; and it may be thought that to have beaten them out into the gold-leaf of verse was a presumptuous task. But these hymns when begun were not meant to be gath ered into a book. How they came to be so is of little importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.