HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF MAY 24, 1939 COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY THOMAS WHITTAKER. BV. 272 C. 2 The Carton press THE They have had in mind the following needs: 1st. The many parishes where there is a desire for some congregational singing however elaborate other parts of the service may be. 2d. The week-day, Lent, and other services in parish churches and chapels, where there are volunteer choirs, or only an organist and leader. 3d. New missions, and occasional meetings held at summer resorts, or on ship board, where not many of the people are familiar with the services. The consecutive arrangement of Morning and Evening Prayers, with the printing of The Twenty Selections of Psalms, make it easy for all to join in the worship,-this book answering for both Prayer Book and Hymnal. 4th. Day Schools where daily religious services are held. 5th. Sunday Schools where efforts are made to familiarize young people with the Church's prayers and hymns. It is possible to have the young people in our parishes acquire a fondness for good music, of a churchly character, of which they will not grow weary, and by which they are helped to take their part in the services of the Lord's House. 6th. The Families in which the family altar is maintained, and the Lord's name is honored with daily worship. May the number of such families increase! The book contains favorite melodies which have been long associated with familiar hymns, and melodies equally good, fitted to the best of the new hymns now authorized for use. Beside these there is all the other music needed for the rendering of the ordinary, and some of the special, services, so that it may take the place of Leaflets and other printed selections. Nothing has been inserted that is not really valuable and helpful. Whatever variations of individual tastes there may be it will be found that the whole book is practicable, and that it contains as much material as many congregations and schools really need. The small cost at which it is sold brings it within the reach of most parishes and missions, so that a copy may be placed in the hands of each worshipper. Thus, with the music before the eyes of all, there may be something of united praise of the Lord in the voice of holy song. THE MORNING SERVICES. I.—A Hymn may first be sung. All standing, the Minister reads one or more Sentences: 1. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be alway acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.-Psalm xix. 14, 15. 2. This is the day which the Lord hath made. and be glad in it.-Psalm cxviii. 24. We will rejoice 3. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.-1 John i. 8, 9. 4. The hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.—St. John iv. 23. DE II.-Then this Exhortation: EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God, our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought, at all times, humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought we chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying III. Then all, kneeling down, unite in this Confession. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We have |