The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-05-11
new PRESBYTERIAN
PRAYERBOOk IS OUT
Committee Headed by Henry
Van Dyke Has Com
pleted Task.
is SOME OBJECTION TO 1T
Westerner Quoted as Saying, wv,
Have to Eat Canned Vegetables
and Meat, but Can't Stand
for Canned Prayers"

New York, May 9.-The new book of
common worship has just been pub
iished with the authority of the Pres
byterian general assembly. For three
years q special committee on forms and
services for the general assembly.
headed by the Rev. DIR. Henry Van
Dyke, has been working on this new
prayer book" and the first copies of
the completed book We're received from
the Presbyterian official board OF pub
LEGATION on Saturday. The title page
nouncement: Fol voluntary use in
churches"
This is the first time a prayer book
has been offered Tor use in the Presby-
terrain church. The opposition to the
book in the general assembly last year
was particularly strong from western
missionaries. One of these sturdy rep-
resentatives of the cloth expressed the
sentiments of himself and fellows as
follows:
out u way we have to eat canned
vegetables, canned meat, and canned
milk, but we can't stand for canned
prayers"
Many Churches May Not Use Book.
Now that the Presbyterian prayer
book has been published, all that re-
mains tor those who are opposed to
it is to refrain from it's use, and it is
predicted by Presbyterian leaders that
a large humble OF churches will so
refrain. But in the east and in the
large cities of the country generally the
used.
AS to the book itself. a number of
Presbyterian pastors of this city Who
We're seen We're unanimous in the
opinion that the work of DR.. Van
Dykes committee had been ably done.
The book is arranged conveniently,
the contents are sue that practically
all the regular and special church oc-
casions are provided for, and more
thar n clergyman said the book
would prove most useful, even ii it
We're to be used only by a minister for
his own guidance, and not put in the
hands of the people of the congrega-
ton.
In many particulars the book has
book OF common prayer. Some Episco-
palians said that some of the forms
tor services and many of the prayers
were, with a change of a word or two,
bodily taken from their prayer book.
To this assertion a Presbyterian editor
made reply that as a matter OF fact the
makers of the prayer book of the JEpis-
.Sopal church themselves had drawn on
some older sources.
u Women will be especially Interested
in the marriage ceremony in the new
book, for it omits the word "obey" and
1t also omits reference to the worldly
goods" with which the man and woman
In the Episcopal and other marriage
forms endowed each other.
Injunction in Church Merger.
Decatur. Ill.,. May S.-Next Monday
Judge Johns in the circuit court will
be asked to grant an injunction to re-
strain q vote at the coming general as
sembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church on the proposition to unite with
The Presbyterian church. This is the
most important question to come up at
the gathering. The non-union faction
If the Cumberland Presbyterian church
objects on the ground hat the general
assembly has no legal right to declare
a union of the church with another sep
arate and distinct organization and pro-
for the transfer of property.