December 20th.
"O Key of David and Sceptre of the House of Israel! Who
openest and no man shutteth; Who shuttest and no man openeth;
come and bring forth from his prison-house the captive
sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death."
(Isaias XXII. 22, Apoc. III. 7, Gen. XLIX. 10, Heb. I. 8).
_1st. Prelude._ The little King with the Key and the Sceptre.
_2nd. Prelude._ Grace to respond to the Key and the Sceptre.