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new PRESBYTERIAN
PRAYERBOOK IS OUT
Committee Headed by Henry
Van Dyke Has Com
pIeted Task.
is SOME OBJECTION TO IT
Wesserner Quoted as Saying. W.
Have to Eat Canned Vegetables
and Meat. but Can't Stand
for Canned Prayers

New York. May The new book OF
common worship has just been pub
.isned with the authority of the Pres
bytcri,,a general assembly. For three
years Il special committee on forms and
services for the general assembly,
headed by the Rev Or. Horny 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
OF the book bears this Significant am
n-ouncemcnt For voluntary use in
ChurCheS.'
This is the first time a prayer book
has been offered tor use in the Prcsby-
terrain church. The opposition to the
book in the general assembly last wear
WAS particularly strong from western
missionaries. one of these sturdy rep
rescntatives of the cloth expressed the
sentiments of himself and fellows AS
follows:
out our way we have To cat 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 for those who are opposed tn
it is to refrain from its use, and 1t is
predicted by Presbyterian leadcrs that
IL large number of churches will so
refrain. But in the east and in the
large cities of the country generally the
new book is expected to be largely
used.
AS to the book itself. a number OF
Presbyterian pastors of this city who
were seen We're unanimous in the
opinion that the work of DR.. Van
Dykes committee had been ably lone.
The book is arranged conveniently,
the contents are such hat practically
all the regular and special church oc-
rasionS are provided for, and more
than one clergyman said the book
would prove most useful, ever if il
we're to be used only by Il minister for
his W guidance. and not put in the
hands of the people of the congrega-
ton.
In many particulars the book has
points of similarity with the Episcopal
book of common prayer. Some Episco-
palianS said that some of the forms
for services and many Of the we
were. with a change OF Il word or two.
bodily taken from their prayer book.
To this assertion Il Presbyterian editor
made reply that as a matter of fact the
makers of the prayer book of the IEpis-
"opal church themselves had drawn on
some older sources.
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 n and woman
In the Episcopal II other marriage
forms endowed each other.
Injunction in Church Merger.
Decatur. H., May s.-NeXt Mon.iay
! Judge Johns in the circuit court viii
be asked to grant an injunction to re-
strain a vote at the coming general as
sembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
-hurch 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 that the general
assembly has no legal right to declare
=; union of the church with another seq
aratc and distinct organization and pro-
Aide for the transfer of property.