(2.) In the Roman Church the Any is celebrated with great care. "The Church in her whole office expresses the deepest mourning and compunction. The altars are naked, except at the priest's communion, when the ornaments are black, and the crucifix is covered with a Idack veil till the prostration, after which it is left uncovered." Instead of the ordinary mass, the " Mass
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of the Presanctified" is said, without the consecration of the Host. The sacrament, reserved the day before, is received in one kind onl_y by the priest, Mho recites tlic Lord's prayer and a small part of the prayers of the mass. " No others receive the holy communion except the priest who celebrates the divine office, and the sick in mortal danger of death, to whom it is ad- ministered b)"- way of viaticum."
(3.) Among the Protestant churches Good Friday is observed as a fast, and by special services and praj'- ers by the Church of England, the Lutherans, German Reformed, and many Methodists. — Coleman, Ancie7it Chrh/ifinifi/, p. 51G; Wheatly, Common Prat/er, ch. v, § 15 ; Butler, Feasts and Fasts, tr. vi, ch. v.
Good Tidings. See Gospel.
Good Works. See Works.
Goode, William, a clergyman of the Church of England, rector of Allhallows the Great and Less, Lon- don, and later dean of Ripon, died in 18G8. He was a prominent and prolific writer of the Low-Church school. Among the best known of his works are : The Extraordinary Gifts of the Sjnnt (London, 1834) : — The Established Church (1834) : — Tracts on Church- rates (1840): — The Dirine Rule of Faith and Practice (1842, 2 vols. ; 2d ed. 1853, 3 vols.), directed against the views of Dr. Pusey concerning the value of tradi- tion as a rule of faith : — Tract XC historicallij refuted (1845): — Doctrine of the Church of England as to the Effects of BajJtism in the case of Infants (1849) : — Vindi- cation of the Church of Eiufand on the Validity of the Orders in the Scotch and Foreign non-Episcopal Churches (3 pamphlets, 3d ed. 1852).
Goodell, William, D.D., a Congregational min- ister and eminent missionaiy, was born at Templeton, Mass., Feb, 14, 1792. In early youth he manifested great energj' of character. At fifteen he went sixty miles on foot, carrying his trunk, to Phillips Acadeni}', in Andover ; and there, and afterwards in Dartmouth College, he overcame all difficulties until he graduated in 1817. He spent three years in Andover Theologi- cal Seminary, and in 1820 was accepted as a mission- ary of the American Board. He travelled for some time as agent for raising funds for the society' from Xew England as far as Alabama, and also visited the Cherokee and Choctaw missions east of the Mississip- pi. In Dec, 1822, he sailed for Malta. After preach- ing in English and studying other languages during nine months, he left Malta for Beirut, where he ar- rived Nov. 10, 1823. "By the residence there of Messrs. Goodell and Bird, Beirut became a regular sta- tion of the Board. After some attention to the Arabic, Mr. Goodell went, in June, 1824, to Sidon, to studj' the Armeno-Turkish language with an Armenian ex-bish- op, Yakob Aga, where he became acquainted with another Armenian bishop, Dionysius Carabet, who, a year and a half later, was received into tlie mission church at Beirut. Thus singularly did the ' Mission to Syria and the Holy Land,' at tlie very outset, take liold of a people who were not thought of in its estab- lishment, and of whom but a few individuals were found l)y it except as pilgrims to the sacred places. In March, 1820, after the repulse of the Greeks in an attack on Ueirut, Mr. Goodell's house was plundered and his life endangered b}-^ Arab soldiers. In May, 1828, war being innninent between Turkev and Eng- land, tlie missionaries were obliged to flee to Malta. Iliere :Mr. Goodell labored in connection with the lacts until the summer of 18:!1, when he repaired to < 'cin.st;uitin()ple, and connnenccd the mission to Tur- key, with special reference to the Armenians, in which he was joined a few months later by the Rev. H. G. 0. Dwight. From tliat time on his work lav s-pecially among the Armenians. jMr. Goodell's early experi- ence and natural temperament combined, with divine grace, to fit him eminently to meet them with a cheer-
ful patience. With a true Christian heroism, in which his wife had an erjual sliare, he encountered such inci- dents of life as being obliged, by conflagrations, visita.. tions of pestilence, convulsions and war, tlie extortions of landlords, hierarchical persecutions, interference of government, etc., ' to pack up and move" his residence 'some thirty times in twenty-nine years,' and liattled with the opposition and obstacles that were ever before him as a missionary. Indomitable in his purpose to do good, affable and courteous in manner, of ready tact, and abounding in resistless pleasantry, he gained access wherever he chose to go, and exercised a mag- netic attraction that never left him without subjects on whom to pour, in some form, the light of truth. He commanded the respect of foreign ambassadors and travellers, of dignitaries of the Oriental churches, bankers, and the highest in society, with whom, at dif- ferent periods, he had no little intercourse, as well as the common people ; and even enemies to his work were constrained to honor him. Few possess in so high degree as he did the admii-able faculty of doing good without oft'ence, and of recommending personal religion to the world." One of his most important la- bors was the translation of the Bible into Armeno- Turkish, commenced in 1843, and finished (the last re- vision) in 1803. In 1855 he returned to America, worn out with laljor, and died in Philadelphia Feb. 18, 1807. " In the future history of the kingdom of Christ in the lands which include the site of the garden that was planted in Eden, and the scenes of events most sacred to Christian hearts, the name of William Goodell will be precious to successive generations of sanctified souls, even to the end of the world." — Missionary Her- ald, May, 1867.