New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-04

the limited States The committee has also endeavored
without departing from primitive liturglcsl use to
adapt the principles of Divine service TO the needs oil
this age and country For example, there Is one
Office for the Fourth of July and another for Harvest
Home number Of new lturefes are also proposed :;
and an Office for Compline." the p m. service,
favored by the High Churchmen.
These matters disposed Of the House tex up the
order of the day, and the Rev DR.. Huntington, OF
New York, who had allowed several members the
floor BY courtesy proceeded 10 speak to the business
before the EOuso This the revision Of the
prayer book. embodied in eighteen resolutions.
These resolutions were adopted in the last General
Convention and In accordance win the canon law OF
the Church, have been IN the meantime submitted to
every diocesan convention In tho Church. They had
now TO up before this convention for final
adoption or rejection Adoption by the House OF
Bishops also required in order that the resolutions
might become law. As has been already stated, tho
Bishops adopted the whole eighteen apparently voting
them through with great expedition The House
of Deputies however took them up one by one,
and at the hour for adjournment had one Of them
still under discussion.
TAKING THE RESOLUTIONS ONE BY ONE.
The first resolution recognizes the Office of Morning
Prayer the Litany and the Office of Holy Communion
as distinct offices, which may, IL desired, be used
separately provided that none of them be habually
diSused 1t also provides that the Ldany may be
USED az tnc evening SerNce, III Ccl'aih
cies gives the clergyman liberty 10 use any scrvpe
outside of the regular services which may be approved
by the Bishop. This resolution was at once adopted
by an overwhelming majority, having been fully and
eXhaustvely discussed in the last General Convention
and, moreover involving great doctrnal question
IL will add considerably to the fexibhty of Episcopal
worship. Before it voted on, DR.. Huntington,
who moved that it be put its passage reminded tho
House of The ample discussion which 1t and nearly all
of the other resolutions had already received.
The second resolution provides that on any day
other than sunday the general eXhOrtation, beginning
Dearly beloved brethren may be omitted the min
lister saying in its place. Let humby confess
sins TO Almighty God" II provides also that on
any day when the Holy Communion is Immediately 10
follow, the minister may. at his discretion, pass at
once from the Sentences to the Lords Prayer, first
pronouncinG The Lord be with you.' Answer-'And
with thy spirit Minister-'Let us pray.'D This
also adopted.
The third resolution provides for a number OF ad-
ditional sentences for Morning Prayer including SEN
tences adapted for the seasons OF Advent Christmas
Good Friday, Easter Ascension, whltsunday. and
Trinity Sunday. The Rev. Dr. Parks, of Connecticut
objected to this resolution various grounds one or
them, In his words, being It IS very difficult to
read OF these sentences the average reader I'm
such way that they may open the service as with
trumpet tone, as is obtained in the old sentences
But fhe minority voting against this resolution was
sIndU. Inc fourth resolution DrOVides
that the Gloria Pari,' which now obligatory after
the Venie, Benedcite Benedictus Jubilae and every
psalm of the psater may be omitted after each psalm
but must be said the end of the whole portion or
selection of psalms
The fifth provides that the cantco known as the
Jublate Dec shall he designated as a psalm. The
sixth allows the minister to omit the prayers in the
morning service after the prayer for the President
when the Holy Communion is Immediately to follow.
SPECIAL PRAYERS AND THANKsGIvINGs.
The seventh proposes similar extension Of open
ing sentences for Evening Prayer 10 that provided
for Morning Prayer by the third resolution Of aera-
ton The ninth resolution simply specifies more
clearly the place IN which special prayers and thanks
gvngs shall be used before the General Thanksgiving
The tenth merely proposes verbal Changes in the
prayer for the meetings Of convention The eleventh
Is OF the general character the NINTH specify
ing I'm what part of the service the General Thanks Civ
ing shall be used The fourteenth resolution specifies
more particularly to what the clergyman shall do
before the prayer for the Church militant, and II
also specifies that hymn ofertory anthem may be
sung when the ofiertory is presented To sing hymn
has been usual practice now though there has been
specific rubrc for It, The fifteenth resolution pro-
vides that the following shall be placed after the pre-
face in the Confirmation Office: "Then the minister
shall present unto the Bishop those who are 10 be
confirmed, and shall say, Reverend Father in God |
present unto YOU these children Tor these perSonsl TO
receive the laying of hands, The sixteenth reso.
luton reads as follows Omit the selections OF Psalms
and In place thereof insert table of selections and
table of Proper Psalms, being the same As the Tables
under the heading The Order how the Psalter Is Ap
pointed 10 be Read" The seventeenth does away
with the discretion of using Psalm xiii instead n. the
Magnificent and the eighteenth does away with the
discretionary use OF Psalm Kill instead of the
Nunc Dimittis
ONE CHANGE REJECTED.
All these were passed by exceedingly large ma
iorItles. The eighth resolution rejected II pro
vidcd that the Ltany should be used on any day I'm
Lent at the discretion of the minister and that n
sunday. Its opponents held that II limited the presen
liberty of the minister in regard 10 the use of the
Litany.
On the thirteenth resolution thirty clerical doceses
voted aye, eighteen nay and divided twenty.
nine lay doceses voted aye, seventeen nav and one
was divided; the resolution thus being passed bv 4
much narrower majority than most OF the others
adopted. II provides for addition TO the number
Of the OFeroiy which are read by the min
ister during the taking up of the Oferory
IL was in the afternoon session, just before the
voting the thirteenth resolution. that the message
was received from the House OF Bishops informing t6e
lower house Of the adoption Of all the resolutions by
the Bishops. The announcement was received with a
ington said: " 1t was not from any lack
of desire by the friends OF liturgicaI revision
10 adopt the expeditions method adopted in the
other house that they did not do 50 but because OF the
fact that the Committee Constitution three wears
ago assured MS In the most solemn manner that these
resolutions must be passed upon individually Theirs
is no royal road for Us. We must ballot on as we
have been baloting 70 The end therefore move you.
IL has acquired. be now put upon IT'S passaCes
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