General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. F. Rawson Briggs, The Rectory, Gresham, Norwich, for the following :- Questions on the Prayer Book 1. What are the dates of the different editions of the Book of Common Prayer before 1927?
2. What is the date and description of the first English service published for use in church ? 3. Where does this Prayer occur ? "0 Saviour of the world, Who by Thy Cross and precious Blood haat redeemed us : save us and help us, we humbly beseech Thee, 0 Lord."
4. Where, and in what words in the Prayer Book does the Church of England show that she thinks of herself as a part of the whole Church of Christ ?
5. What is the history of the rules and rubrics relating to the publication of Banns of Marriage ? 8.
"it is a fundamental principle that the Church . . . must . . . retain its inalienable right, in loyalty to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to formulate its faith in Him, and to arrange the expression of that Holy Faith in its forms of worship." When, and by whom were these words spoken ?
7. In what part of the Prayer Book does the Church of England show that she insists upon episcopal ordination for her ministers ?
8. Where in the Prayer Book does the word " Protestant, " occur ?
9. To whom is the authorship of the 7's Deum ascribed! 10. In which service do we find the prayer for unity, beginning, " 0 God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ " 7
11. Where in the Prayer Book is the Blessed Virgin Mary called " our Lady " ?
12. What is the standard by which the correctness of any edition of the Book of Common Prayer may be measured ?
13. There is a mistake about "Amen." What is it ? Answers will be found on page 473.
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