A Broadcast Liturgy Among the regular features of the B.B.C.
daily pro- grammes the Daily Service holds a firmly established place. It appeals particularly to inmates of 'hospitals and invalids elsewhere, but there are many others who make an interval in their morning's work to listen to the brief service and appreciate it. It is naturally a service based on a liturgy, for there is no address, and the endeavour of the compilers of the liturgy must be to blend wisely the fresh and the familiar. In the new service- • book, "-New Every Morning," published this week (and obtainable from the B.B.C. at ls. and 1s. 6d.) that aim has been admirably achieved. Ancient, mediaeval and very modern prayers are included, the latter well combining reality with dignity. Firemen and fishermen, the lonely and lover, journalists and judges, pilots and poets, statesmen, students, scientists and unemployed, sufferers from road accidents, are those for whom intercession is made. In its interpretation of prayer in terms at once of the eternal and the immediate the new service-book is a-contribution of lasting value to Christian literature, and by the magnitude of its appeal through the daily broadcast service it promises to exercise a sensible influence on religious thought in this country.
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