The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar in the Measurement and Distribution of Time: Being an Account of the Origin and Use of the Calendar, of Its Reformation From the Old to the New Style, and of - Hardcover

Samuel Seabury

9780332965314: The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar in the Measurement and Distribution of Time: Being an Account of the Origin and Use of the Calendar, of Its Reformation From the Old to the New Style, and of

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Excerpt from The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar in the Measurement and Distribution of Time: Being an Account of the Origin and Use of the Calendar, of Its Reformation From the Old to the New Style, and of Its Adaptation to the Use of the English Church by the British Parliament Under George the Second

For these letters in our Calendar are clothed with remark able functions, and are made subservient to very various and important ends. The merchant refers to a card in his count ing-house in which they are made available for finding the day of the month; the historian uses them, in a different combination, in order to refer distant events to their proper years and to measure the intervals between them; and the antiquary by means of them fixes with precision the dates of events of which only a shadowy outline is given in the original records; none of them considering, some of them, perchance, not knowing, that for the ingenious artifices which they use, and which guide them with infallible certainty to the results which they seek, they are indebted to the first seven letters Of the alphabetfrais used in the Calendar throughout the year to designateff'th� several days of the week; or rather to the fact that the Church takes these seven letters in their alphabetical order to be, what the proper names of the days are not, the invariable indices of the days of the year, and in their retrograde order to be the invariable indices of the. Years for all time past, present, and to come.

But there is another fact yet more remarkable, viz., that the unanimity of almost all civilized nations, in Europe and America, in'following one and the same standard of time, has been brought about, not by the discoveries of modern science, but by the ingenious and patient labours of ecclesiastics who have, from age to age, watched over the Church Calendar, and sought to bring it as nearly as possible to a state of perfection.

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