Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and SocietyCoxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland)
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Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society
Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland)
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UNISON OF THE LITURGY. _From Advent to Ash-Wednesday._ By Archer
Gifford, A. M. _12mo. 328 pages._
_Price_, $1.00.
It is pleasing to see a mind which has been long given to the
duties of a severe profession, turning thus for relief and
diversion into the brighter field of theological literature. Mr.
Gifford has already gained a distinction in New Jersey by
several legal works, which have had the patronage of our
Legislature, and now we have another volume from his pen,
intended, as it were, for a dutiful offering to his Church.
The design of the work is to unfold and illustrate the more
profound and unapparent excellencies of that most elaborate of
all productions, the Episcopal Liturgy. Although there may be a
difference of opinion as to the utility of this manual of
devotional formularies, yet no one can fail to admire it as an
æsthetical composition. The manner in which it has been arranged
and ordered is most strikingly beautiful. It is a frame filled
with moveable pieces. On no two occasions of its use does it
appear exactly alike, but constantly assumes new combinations
with the progressive sentiment of the ecclesiastical year. These
ever changing portions within this unalterable framework are
wholly of a Scriptural character. For every Sunday, two chapters
are selected from the Old Testament, and two from the New,
called the “Lessons;” and two brief passages, chosen for their
weighty and emphatic import, called the “Epistle” and the
“Gospel,” are appropriately prefixed by a comprehensive and
leading prayer, whose substance has been gathered out of them,
called the “Collect.” But this is not merely a superficial
arrangement: an aim and a principle underlies it all. Every
Sunday and Holy-day has an especial subject assigned to it,
either doctrinal or preceptive, which runs through and dictates
all these variations of the Service. Thus in every week the
Scriptures are made, by these manifold citations from them, to
cluster around some central thought and flash their light upon
it.
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