The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-20
NO. II.
S1noap 8eaoing.
REVISION OF THE EEGLIgH
CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT,

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account of reform at present in prog
ress IN the Church of England. The
following are some of the changes con-
templated:
The Book of Common Prayer is to re-
main intact, center and alterated !" but
the length of the services on Sunday and
holidays, and, especially when the num-
Der of communicates is considerable, Is
to be remedied by division of the ser
vices This they recommend to be done
/ only by the joint consent of the Incum-
+ bent and the Bishop, who in this case may
direct that either the order for the adj
ministration of the Holy Communion,
and that for daily prayer, may be used
as a separate service. They also recon-
4 mend a new, authorized table Of lessons
to be substituted for those already used
at-evening prayer, whenever it be twice
said on the same day. They also recon-
mend a shorter order of daily prayer to
be compiled from the Book of Common
prayer, with prescribed lessons from Ho-
lly7 Scripture, to be used on week days
at the joint discretion of tho Incumbent
and the Bishop.
They also recommend the following
occasional services:-
l. The Litany, with q Scripture les
son, psalmody, holy baptism, chanting,
sermon or cateehising.
h 2. sAs short selection of collects, with
the Lords Prayer and psalmody, to pre-
cede or follow a sermon or catechising.
+ 8. A service with sermon, preparato-
Eryt6 the administration ofthe Holy COM
munion.a asdsIa1;gt a e
h. 4. A Thanksgiving Service, contain
ing the Kenite, Is Deuna, psalmody,
collects, the Lords Prayer, a lesson. and
the General Thanksgiving, with or with
tout a sermon. sci 1ffe-F5s a9sls sHf
~ s.. Services forsthe deprecation and
sremoxal Of Gods judgments;one former
/ Iy collects. the Lords Prayer, peniten-
tial psalms and q lesson-the other, con-
sisting of the Litany, with penitential
psalm, and a lesson, with or without a
fsernloH..5s So zoASssysSa "a 1se1
6. A service for church missions
Z. A service for children.
pa They further recommend that the Bish-
Eop should be ernpowefed to authorize on
| any day of, the week, the order for the
administration of the Holy CQpnninion
as a seperate, service, and to allow on
special occasions the substitution of 9TH
Ter chapters from the old and new Testa-
ment for those appointed for the day
They further suggest that form should
| be authorized for admission. of converts
/ from the church Of Rome and others, and
the restoration Of the lapsed. The Cam
on which forbids parents to besponsors,,
they wish to be upheld, and recommend
that the ezhortation IN the communion,
service be read Immediately after the
sermon. The other recommendations
Erefer chiefly to an extension OF the dia-,
Econate ia% s'.A
1.-The above Recommendation proceed.
WHOLLY from the upper House !; and it viii
be observed that they are marked by Q
tendency to decreasing the power OF
Bishops; for In one report at least-thes
tdiVisions of the services, this has been
aIready done, and IN many instances with
Tout and sometimes against the consent of
1.-THE Bishop. The Lower House has made
Recommendations Of similar and equal
fly important character; to which / may
hereafter refer. sal .'.A@ =
AMERtcAs Mission. Cheering details
were. given of the progress of Protestant
tisn in the region Of Aintab and Arab
kir, in Asia Minor. Mr.. Wood mention
ed the formation of a Society in England,
of which Lord SALISBURY is President,
| to aid in the work Of tevangehzation, IN
Turkey q 1t is composed of members Of
the Churehsef ENGLAND, Of Congregati0p--
lists, Presbyterians and Baptists. They
do not propose to send missionaries, but
to raise funds to be placed at the disposal
Al, a, ok-.H eHa1 md
particularly those of the American Board
to be employed In the use of agencies
for evangelization, additional to those
which they are now carrying forward
Mr.. Wood spoke ofthis movement as .
pleasing development of the true Catho-
lie, Christian spirit, and as one that
would tend to bind together America and
Great Britain by new bonds Of sympathy,
while it might be the means of inestima-
BILE IN building up the kingdom of truth
and peace the lands of the East, He
read an extract from an addess by the
President of this newly formed society,
inwhich an incident is related, Hlustra-
ting the decline of Mahommedan preju-
dice at Constantinople, as follows:
g A fact has been stated to me, and it
is one worthy of your notice. It was sta
ted to me by my son, who was with the
feet in Besilea Bay, and who was allow
ed to go to Constantinople. There he
saw great deal of the Turks, and all
was going on in that city. He was anx--
ious to get admission to mosque, but
he and his friends did not dare to go un-
der peril of their lvess He was again
at Constantinoplelat the close of the year,
and he went with party of thirty or
forty officers into nearly every mosque,
without let or hindranee All they were
to do, was to take off their
shoes or boots before entering, as mark
Of respect This is remarkable proof
Of the abatement of prejudice, and the
great effort producced by constant enter
course with Europeans, and it is for us
to avail ourselves of this great opportu-
1ity, and get something more lasting and
better than the mere intercourse of CIV
lization. I have heard that the Sultan
has given a large sum of money for the
.epair of the Protestant cefnetry at Con-
and I understand, at this
that he has signifed his intens
ion to give a large space of goound for
he erection Of Protestant church there.
Nearly e700 has already been collected
oward the objects of the Society"