Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Thoughts on the Services: Designed as an Introduction to the Liturgy, and an Aid to Its Devout Use
IT would be strange, indeed, if fifty years had brought no changes in the customs and usages of the Church tending to make the former editions of this little book somewhat out of date. And when those fifty years have been the most active and progressive in all our history, characterized by wide-spread interest in liturgical and ritual matters, and by a marvellous development of the churchly Spirit, in architecture, music, and life, we might well expect that many changes would be necessary in order to harmonize the past and present. The Prayer book has been revised and new features introduced into our worship. The Lectionary has been considerably altered, rendering most inappropriate some Of our au thor's references. A large and varied Hymnology has succeeded to the metrical Psalms and selected Hymns Of former days.
But no rude hand has destroyed or marred the sublime beauty of our Common Prayer, and so deeply had our poet-bishop entered into the spirit of the Church's wor ship that in revising this book few changes have been found needful other than those caused by the circum stances mentioned above.
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