The Book of Common Worship (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

U.S.A. Presbyterian Church

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330811038 ISBN 13: 9781330811030

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Book of Common Worship

Although the Books of Common Order, which were pre pared for the Reformed Churches, at the beginning, in all countries, contained both prayers and other forms, yet were those books not so much imposed by way of inflexi ble regulation, as they were offered and accepted as profit able Aids to W orship; and they not only permitted but encouraged the exercise of Free Prayer. In a like spirit the Directory for Worship, adopted ata later time by the Church of Scotland, for the sake of unity with their breth ren in the Church of England, so far from establishing an invariable form of Public Worship, expressly provided for a liberty of variation; and it did not in any way prohibit the use of prepared orders and prayers, conformable to the general directions given therein.

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Henry van Dyke was an American religious writer, lecturer, and clergyman. Educated at the Theological Seminary at Princeton University, van Dyke returned to the school after his graduation as a Professor of English Literature and became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1913 he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson, his former classmate, as the ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, a job that he maintained throughout the First World War. His most famous short stories include "The Story of the Other Wise Man" and "The First Christmas Tree," which, like many of his other works, centered around moral and religious themes. After a lifetime of public service and religious leadership, Henry van Dyke died in 1933 at the age of 80.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330811038
• ISBN 13: 9781330811030
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 277