Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they who have freely received of thy bounty, may of thy bounty freely give; through Jesus Christ our Lord. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, direct and inspire you, and give you thankful hearts, now and for evermore. Amen. Printed in the United States of America. The People's Book of Worship A Study of the Book of Common Prayer BY JOHN WALLACE SUTER and CHARLES MORRIS ADDISON Cloth, 12mo This new volume in the "Church Principles for Lay People" series, is to be regarded not as a book at all but as a library of books bound together to make one volume, thus leading us to apprehend its riches and to discover its unrealized treasures of helpfulness for the worshipper, and to be used with intelligence and freedom to the soul's health. It discusses: I. THE MEANING OF WORSHIP Worship is the attitude and act of man when he realizes how much God is worth. II. THE BOOK ITSELF It is five books in one. III. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES The interplay of the two principles of Growth and Comprehension is the guarantee of the book's endurance. IV. THE THREE WORKING PRINCIPLES By faithful and intelligent adherence to these three Working Principles the people may come to a truer and more vital using of its services in their worship. V. MORNING PRAYER AND EVENING PRAYER By five great steps of progress constituting an unfaltering rightness of order the service proceeds in accordance with what is as it were a natural history of worship. VI. THE LITANY It is this combination of the two primal instincts of prayer which make it so great an instrument of worship. VII. THE HOLY COMMUNION The three parts of the service form a series of approaches, each ordered in a corresponding manner with every other in the method of its inauguration and climax. No part is detachable or inconsequential. VIII. THE SPIRIT OF THE BOOK AND ITS USE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY |