[68] In _The Book Annexed_, as originally presented, there stood in this place the beautiful and appropriate psalm, _Levavi oculos_. But the experts declared that this would never do, since from time immemorial _Levavi oculos_ had been a Vesper Psalm, and it would be little less than sacrilege to insert it in a morning service, however congruous to such a use the wording of it might, to an unscientific mind, appear. Accordingly the excision was made; but upon inquiry it turned out that the monks had possessed a larger measure of good sense, as well as a better exegesis, than the Convention had attributed to them, for _Levavi oculos_, it appears, besides being a Vesper psalm, stood assigned, in the Sarum Breviary, to Prime as well; the fact being that the psalm is alike adapted to morning and to evening use, and singularly appropriate both to the "going out" and the "coming in" of the daily life of man. [69] See p. 6. [70] "O Lord, bow thine ear," has been suggested as a substitute. It is in the words of Holy Scripture, it is the precise metrical equivalent of "O Lord, save the queen," and it is directly antiphonal to the versicle which follows. There being no Established Church in the United States, it is doubtful whether any prayers for "rulers" are desirable, over and above those we already have. And if this point be conceded, the other considerations mentioned may be allowed to have weight in favor of "O Lord, bow thine ear." [71] _The Seminarian_, 1886, pp. 29, 30. [72] It may be well to throw, into a foot-note a single illustration of what might otherwise be thought an extravagant statement. The Rev. W. C. Bishop, writing in _The Church Eclectic_ for February, 1884, says: "The service of the Beatitudes proposed by the Committee is just one of 'fancy-liturgy making,' which ought to be summarily rejected. We have more than enough of this sort of thing already; the commandments, comfortable words, _et hoc genus omne_, are anything but 'unique glories' of our Liturgy. Anything of which we have exclusive possession is nearly certain to be a 'unique _blunder_,' instead of anything better, because the chances are a thousand to one that anything really beautiful or edifying would have been discovered by, and have commended itself to, some other Christians in the last two thousand years." If such is to be the nomenclature of our new "science," Devotion may well stand aghast in the face of Liturgies. [73] See the Commination Office in the Prayer Book of the Church of England. [74] Daniel's _Codex Liturgicus_, vol. iv. p. 343. Quoted in _Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_. The translation of makapismoi has been doubted; but Dr. Neale and Prof. Cheetham agree that the reference is to the BEATITUDES of the Gospel. [75] _Church Eclectic_ for April, 1884. [76] The following will serve as an illustration: _The Anthem_; Blessed are the merciful, for they shall get mercy; blessed are the clean in the heart, for they shall see God.