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Sunday
after Ascension Day.
THE WAITING CHURCH.
by the Rev. Prebendary Melville Scott, D.D.
from The Harmony of the Collects, Epistles, and
Gospels.
A Devotional Exposition of the Continuous Teaching
of the Church Throughout the Year,
S.P.C.K., London, 1902.
THIS Sunday, intermediate between our Lord's Ascension and
His promised gift of the Spirit, is well described by its ancient name
of "Dominica Expectationis," or Waiting Sunday, in reference to the command
(Acts i.4) to "wait for the promise of the Father," and with a second reference
to our time of waiting " till He come " Who has ascended into the Heavens.
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