THE REVISION OF THE PRAYER BOOK.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sra,—Your excellent article on the Revision of the Prayer. Book should do much to help the matter forward ; but I venture to think that the additional services provided in the National Assembly Paper No. 60 are even of more importance than some of the alterations suggested in the present Offices. Why should not these be taken separately, and, if approved, be issued, without waiting for the whole of the proposals to be adopted or rejected en masse ? The issue of the Lectionary by itself is sufficient precedent. Now, let us have the Occasional Offices, and the alternative Matins and Evensong, with the revised Psalter, in print, so that our people may use and criticize them intelligently. There is little in these that is controversial, and it is a pity to lose the immediate gain that these offer by waiting until the whole of the alterations have been sanctioned. I plead, therefore, that the revision be taken in sections.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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