THROW.
Minor Queries.
Commemoration of Benefactors.
—I shall be glad to learn by what authority an office for the Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors is used in our college chapels, since this office in not found in our Book of Common Prayer. And, farther, whether the office is the same in all places, mutatis mutandis. In my own college (Queen's, Cambridge), the order of service was as follows:—The Lesson, Ecclus. xliv. (read by a scholar): the sermon: the list of foundresses and benefactors: Te Deum laudamus: proper Psalms, viz. cxlviii., cxlix., cl.: the following versicles and responses:
"V. The memory of the righteous shall remain for evermore.
R. And shall not be afraid of any evil report.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit."
Then followed an appropriate collect, introduced by the words "Let us pray;" and the office was concluded by the Benediction.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.