The Church building itself teaches us much about the worship of God. The steeple points us upward God even before we enter His house. 'The shape of the Church emuinds wa that the Cross of Christ! is the only ground on which we hope for our salvation. If we think of the foundations below we shall remember the eternal purpose of God, His preparation all' through the 8 to bring man ta the full re-elation of himself, and again shall remember Christ and His finished work. on which our redemption stands. Within, the open chancel speaks of the freedom of every Christian to approach God, "which we do continually in our' united prayers, and specially when we come up and kneel side by side before the Holy Table. No priest stands there between us and God:
leads us himself a. worshipper fand as a prophet he declares to snd the _paverient! itself reminds us of the humility and patience of Christians, all being level before God, and' willing that men should pass over thein'if it will make a way for them to draw near to God. In such surroundings, ahall we not worship' God in sincerity, orderliness _and in the beauty of holiness?—Shall' we not offer Him the best we have, praising him with the sound of the organ, and with hearts and voices; singing with gladness to His name?
The Revised Prayer Book But I cannot conclude to-day without speaking of an event which may in the days to come considerably affect the manner of our worship. The Bishops in Englund h now made nnouneement re garding, the revised Prayer Book, which was recently passed by the Houses, of Convocation and the Church' Assembly, but' rejected twice by Parliament. It would have been impossible for them at the bidding of Parliament, to forbid the use of a book with so large a measure of Church approval behind it, They have therefore said that "they cannot regard as inconsistent with loyalty to the principles of the Church of England the use of such additions to and deviations from the Prayer Book of 1662 as fall within, the limits of the proposals set forth in the book of 1928." The book of 1662, the book that has been in.use. since the. Restoration after the Commonwealth, isto remain the normal: use.of the Church, but where the. clergy..and people both. wish it the, use of the Book of 1928 may be. allowed.. Proctices consist ent with neither of. these books shall cease, but.in the, matter of the alternative Communion Service provided in 1928, the use of the new Prayer of Consecration can only be used with sanction of the Bishop. Rubries for the reservation of the consecrated elements are being further considered.
We out-here. are certainly free from parliamentary control, and. can only regard it as expressing the opinion.of owe - fellow-countrymen England..An - English Bishop out, here with. English-. congrega-_ tions.uunder his jurisdiction will certainly..be guided by the decisions of the Episcopate at Home. ". Here we have, bad.no.dosire to change the! old book, except. in such non-cuatroversial matters as the recitation ow" -woll: proportioned.and.6f the two great Commandments in
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