Archdeacon Allen writes to the Guardian that he received the
following answer from a candidate for deacons' orders to the question, " What reasons have you for loving your Prayer Book and for being attached to the English Church, as distinguished from other Protestant communities?" "I pride myself of our Scrip-. tural Prayer-book. I think th : it could not be improved at all. think it wld : be a great shame to shorten the service. By having a form of prayers such as we have—we do not approach our Maker with vain repetitions. The Ch. of England is truly protestant she indeed protests agst all erroneous doctrines." Well, it was not very polished, and it was rather dogmatic, but Would such a Churchman as Archdeacon Denison have said anything very different in substance, had he been the candidate? He would have written the word ' Church' in full no doubt, whatever liberties he had taken with " against " and " would,"—but he would have thought this the heart of the matter after all. The Church and State Review reiterates it in more refined language continually.
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