Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-28

TABLE OF SELECTIONS OF PSALMS.

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As will be seen the selected psalms are
doubled in number, while more feasts and
fasts provided for than in the present
prayer book, but to make up for this only the
above tables are given, and none of the
| tions of psalms" will be separately printed in
the new prayer book. These tables will be
printed In their stead. The worshiper will
have to look them out i'll the psalter.
! The next change is the addition to the OPEN
| ing sentences of the morning service of some
| twenty more scriptural verses, many of which
are for use on special days. Following are
| some of these additions for Christmas:
Behold. bring you good tidngs of great Joy. which
shs be to all people For unto you is born this day In
Lord-St. Luke, ii, 10. II.
| For Good Friday and Easter:
| Is nothing to you, oil ye that pass bys Behold
which is dom unto me. wherewith the Lord hath af.
He is risen; The Lord is risen indeed.-st Mark.
| rejoice and be glad in it.-Psam cxvii. "a.
Similar additions on the same plan have been
/ made to the opening sentences of the evening
service. The rubric following the venite in
! the morning service is changed so as to pro-
! vide that the Gloria Patri may be said after
every psalm and every canticle, and must be
said after the end of the selection from the
! Psalter.
The prayer to be used in meetings Of con-
ventlon is, with verbal change or two. place
immediately after the prayer for Congress, and
rubrics dealing with tire other prayers in the
| same collection are changed so az to provide
for their being used before the general thanks
giving, or when that is not said before the final
prayer of blessing or the benediction.
As those who have followed the proceedings
Ia Mt oil tVor,c ha AZ
use of the Nicene creed has been made COM
pulsory on Christmas day, Easter dsy. Ascen-
sion day. Whitsunday and Trinity Sunday.
The new prayer book will have rubric to that
effect in place of the present rubric in the COM
munion service Then shall he read the
Apostles or Nicene creed"
The following verses are added to the offer
tory sentences in the communion service:
Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring
with his heart ye shall take my offering-EIod XIV
Ye shall rot appear before the Lord empty; every
OF the Lord thy God which he hath given thee-Deut
Thine. Lord, is the greatness and the power, and
the glory and the victory and the ms,esty All that
Kingdom, Y Lord and thou art exalted head above
An ib Gnren co m1; ~ tbse n 1or, on, -.
have We given thee.-L. Chron. XXX, IA.
new rubrlc In the same service authorizes
the singing OF an ofertory hymn which has
been sung some time without authorization
n NeTDdl CudDSe III CODnrmatlOn service
and the omission of the rubrics after the Bonum
est Confteri and Benedic Anima Mea in the
evening service, comprise the rest of the
changes incorporated with the prayer book.
AS soon as the necessary steps can be taken
new prayer books containing the foregoing
changes will be III the hands of the publishers,
Among the noteworthy alterations which re-
qulre the ratification of the next convention is
the insertion in the evening service of the
versicles from the English prayer book begin
ming with 20, Lord, save the state" the last
being changed to For 1t Is thou only o Lord
who maketh us to dwell in safety" A peniten-
tlal Office for Ash Wednesday is provided and
different collects, eplstles and gospels are pro-
vlded for use when there is a second COM
munion service on Christmas and Easter day.
The reference to the marriage at Cana from
! the Engliah book is inserted in the opening
sentence of the marriage service, and psalm,
collect, epistle and gospel are provided for use
when communion is celebrated at the time Of
the marriage. A similar provision for COM
munion at the burial service was negatived.
The insertion at the end of the communion
service of the rubric, There shall be no cele-
bration of the Lords Supper unless there be
some to communicate with the priest" failed
of adoption, but the following was added to the
existing rubric: land sufficient opportunity
shall be given for those who are present to
communicate" This prevents priest from
communicating alone as Rltualistic clergymen
delight to do.
Amy Of the foregoing alterations, as well as
the less important which have not been enum-
Grated may fail of ratification at the next con-
vention, as a provision for the omission Of the
litany on certain festivals did in this. and SO
will never be Incorporated ill the prayer book
What precedes is what the convention did
The list OF what is left undone, if not longer,
some may think contains things of more i'm
portance. The failure to adopt hymnal and
the postponement OF the book Of offices do not
SO much matter from this point of view as
their adoption would be only in the line Of
what the convention did accomplish The
postponement of the proposed canons of mar
riage and divorce and the failure to take firm
stand In regard to the status OF colored Episco-
palians are matters of more moment.
The hymnal cannot be used Professionally as
the deputies enacted, for the bishops vetoed
their action. OF the 7l2 hymns in the proposed
hymnal not more than an hundred we're can
| vassed by the bishops and less than thirty by
the deputies SO that the next convention will
have the work to do nearly all over again. One
! objection winch was made to some of the
| hymns-those in use for the communion service
was that they taught the doctrine of eucha-
| ristic alteration.
While the convention refused to speak out on
the color question, it left for its successor to
consider proposed plan for the establishment
| OF an episcopate for the colored people which
| would practically bring in time the institution
Of an African Episcopal church.
other postponed questions are OF more inter-
! est to clergymen than to laymen. the institu-
| ton OF an appellate court for example. The
postponement Of any change in the name OF
! the church is of more general interest for il
means that the words Protestant Episcopal will
be on the title page Of the prayer book for a,
least six years to come.
Confirmation of Mataafa's Election.