Euchologion; or, Book of Prayers ; being Forms of Worship
issued by the Church Service Society. (Blackwood.)—The Church Service Society is an association of ministers of the Church of Scotland, and its object is the study of Christian liturgies with a view of paving the way to the future introduction of some forms of prayer into the Scotch Church. Its efforts as shown in this volume are essentially tentative. The re- port of the Editorial Committee declares that such a measure as the in- troduction of a liturgy into a Church the worship of which has not as yet been liturgical must be long considered, slowly matured, and ultimately carried by the action of the Church itself. All that the Church Society professes to do is to prepare men's minds for considering such a step. With this view it has published a selection of forms of prayer taken. from many sources. It asks whether the present services are not life- less to many worshippers, and whether it would not be better that there should be some generally recognized way of performing the sacraments that might serve as a model, and be some guarantee of order. We take no part in the discussion, but it may be well to bring the book before the notice of those who will take either part or interest.
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