Service-book

It was too late to read from the Service-book, but Dr. Lett repeated some portions of the service from memory, and our little girl's body was committed to the ground -- "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, -- in sure and certain hope of the glorious resurrection."

Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

Some of them may perhaps have been added after Gregory's time; for it is often difficult to distinguish between the original passages of an ancient Service-book and the additions which were quickly made to it.

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

The next error was made when the Service-book after receiving the Royal sanction, was thrust upon the nation with the most inconsiderate haste, without any opportunity given either to the Clergy or the laity to examine or express any opinion upon it.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

His next step was to prepare the way for the introduction of an uniform Liturgy, but this was surrounded by so many difficulties that he was able to do little more than set an example by establishing the English Service-book in his private chapel at Holyrood.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

As a writer, he has left his mark upon our Service-book in the beautiful prayer for "all conditions of men."

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

From a comparison of the following Tables it will be seen at a glance that the first Revised Service-book preserved the characteristic features of the ancient offices, and while the sequence of each part was generally retained, due prominence, as of old, was given to the element of praise.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

The Document, which throughout is a manual of directions rather than a Service-book, contains detailed prescriptions and numerous suggestions as to the character of the ministers petitions, and it is not a little significant that those, which are to guide "the Prayer before the Sermon," occupy considerably more space

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

These were the changes upon which the Revisionists laid most stress, as we may gather from the Preface with which they introduced their reformed Service-book.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

And while commending them for giving us a Service-book in our own language, we are constrained to go further, and express an additional obligation to them for having clothed it in English, the beauty of which has rarely been equalled, and never surpassed, even in the best age of literary excellence.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

If a particular phraseology, ever connected with one set of ideas, was ousted by another phraseology which had always been used to clothe ideas of a totally different order, no amount, of side-notes, still less general assertions, in a Statute, bound up at its first publication with the Service-book, but disconnected from it for ever afterwards, could insure later generations from the danger of being misled.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900