APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A.

ALTERATIONS OF AND ADDITIONS TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE

STANDARD OF 1892.

The TABLE OF CONTENTS is revised.

CONCERNING THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH, reads:

The Order for Morning Prayer, the Litany, and the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, are distinct Services, and may be used either separately or together; Provided, that no one of these services be habitually disused.

The Litany may be used either in place of the Prayers that follow the Prayer for The President of the United States in the Order for Morning Prayer, or in the place of the Prayers that follow the Collect for Aid against Perils in the Order for Evening Prayer.

On any day when Morning and Evening Prayer shall have been said or are to be said in Church, the Minister may, at any other Service for which no form is provided, use such devotions as he shall at his discretion select from this Book, subject to the direction of the Ordinary.

For Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed by the Civil or by the Ecclesiastical Authority, and for other special occasions for which no Service or Prayer hath been provided in this Book, the Bishop may set forth such Form or Forms as he shall think fit, in which case none other shall be used.

A TABLE OF PROPER PSALMS and a TABLE OF SELECTIONS OF PSALMS are added.

THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IS APPOINTED TO BE READ, has been revised, and reads thus:

The Old Testament is appointed for the First Lessons, and the New Testament for the Second Lessons, at Morning and Evening Prayer throughout the Year.

And to know what Lessons shall be read every day, look for the day of the month in the Calendar following, and there ye shall find the Chapters that shall be read for the Lessons both at Morning and at Evening Prayer; except only the Movable Holy-days, which are not in the Calendar; and the Immovable, where there is a blank left in the column of Lessons; the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Lessons.

If in any Church, upon a Sunday or Holy-day, both Morning and Evening Prayer be not said, the Minister may read the Lessons appointed either for Morning or for Evening Prayer.

At Evening Prayer on Sunday, the Minister may read the Lesson from the Gospels appointed for that day of the month, in place of the Second Lesson for the Sunday.

Upon any day for which no Proper Lessons are provided, the Lessons appointed in the Calendar for any day in the same week may be read in place of the Lessons for the day.

On Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, especially appointed, and on occasions of Ecclesiastical Conventions and of Charitable Collections, the Minister may appoint such Lessons as he shall think fit in his discretion.

HYMNS AND ANTHEMS.

Hymns set forth and allowed by the authority of this Church, and Anthems in the words of Holy Scripture or of the Book of Common Prayer, may be sung before and after any Office in this Book, and also before and after Sermons.

The word Proper is printed before the word Lessons in the heading of the Tables of Lessons for Sundays, for Holy-days, and for the days of Lent.

Among the RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVABLE FEASTS AND HOLY-DAYS begin is the following:

But Note that the Full Moon, for the purposes of these Rules and Tables, is the Fourteenth Day of a Lunar Month, reckoned according to an ancient Ecclesiastical computation, and not the real or Astronomical Full Moon.

In the Table of Feasts, the title The Apostle is appended to the name of St. Barnabas; and after the words St. James the Apostle, The Transfiguration of our Lord JESUS CHRIST is added.

Proper Lessons are provided for the latter feast, and because of this, changes have been made in the Calendar Lessons for July and August.

New Tables have been provided for finding Easter Day, etc.

THE ORDER FOR DAILY MORNING PRAYER.

These rubrics inserted:

The Minister shall always begin the Morning Prayer by reading one or more of the following Sentences of Scripture.

¶ On any day not a Sunday, he may omit the Exhortation following, saying instead thereof, Let us humbly confess our sins unto Almighty God, and may end the Morning Prayer with the Collect for Grace and 2 Cor. xiii. 14.

On any day when the Holy Communion is immediately to follow, the Minister may, at his discretion, pass at once from the Sentences to the Lord's Prayer, first pronouncing, The Lord be with you. Answer. And with thy spirit. Minister. Let us pray.

Fourteen passages have been added to the Opening Sentences, and on the right hand of the page are printed the names of the fasts and feasts to which these quotations belong.

After the lenite this:

¶ Then shall follow a Portion of the PSALMS, as they are appointed, or one of the Selections of Psalms. And at the end of every Psalm, and likewise at the end of the Venite, Benedicite, Benedictus, Jubilate, may be, and at the end of the whole Portion or Selection from the Psalter, shall be sung or said the Gloria Patri.

The latter is printed in full.

This follows:

At the end of the whole Portion of the Psalms or Selection from the Psalter, the Gloria in excelsis may be sung or said instead of the Gloria Patri.

From this place the Gloria in excelsis is omitted.

The second rubric after the Benedicite, reads:

And after that shall be sung or said the Hymn following: but, Note, That, save on the Sundays in Advent, the latter portion thereof may be omitted.

The Benedictus is printed in full, and a space left after the first four verses.

Before the Jubilate Deo the following:

Or this Psalm.

The rubric before the Apostles' Creed as changed, reads:

Then shall be said the Apostles' Creed by the Minister and the People, standing. And any Churches may, instead of the words, He descended into hell, use the words, He went into the place of departed spirits, which are considered as words of the same meaning in the Creed.

In the Apostles' Creed here and wherever used in the book the word "again" is inserted in the line:

The third day he rose again from the dead.

The rubric after the Prayer for the President of the United States, reads:

The following Prayers shall be omitted here when the Litany is said, and may be omitted when the Holy Communion is immediately to follow.

In the Prayer for all Conditions of Men, is inserted:

[* Especially those for whom our prayers are desired; ]

A side note reads;

*This may be said when any desire the prayers of the Congregation.

In the General Thanksgiving, the following is inserted:

[ Particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for thy late mercies vouchsafed unto them.]

A side note reads:

* This may be said when any desire to return thanks for mercies vouchsafed

to them.