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Is to he made to conform to the actual contents. New Tables have been provided for finding Easter-day, the Dominical Letter, etc., with a Note as to the Ecclesiastical Full Moon.

II. IN MORNING

PRAYER.

The Gloria Patri is to be printed after the rubric which provides for its use after the Psalms and Canticles; and the Gloria in excelsis is not to be printed here, but a rubric provides that it may be used at the end of the whole Portion of the Psalms or Selection from the Psalter, as heretofore.

The Benedictus is to be printed before the Jubilate.

III. IN EVENING

PRAYER. Amen is to be printed at the end of the Declaration

rubric; and the rubric before the Lord's Prayer is to

end with the words, repeating it with him.

The Gloria in excelsis is to be printed after a rubric which provides that it may be used at the end of the whole Portion or Selection of Psalms.

The Magnificat is to be printed before the Cantate Domino, and the Nunc dimittis before the Deus misereatur.

V. IN THE ORDER FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION.

At the end of the second rubric, for the words, as soon as conveniently may be, are substituted the words, within fourteen days after, at the farthest.

The rubrical direction as to the reading of the Gospel is put in the form, Then, the People all standing up, he shall read the Gospel, saying; and the rubric before the Gloria tibi is put in the form, Here shall be said or sung.

The two Exhortations, giving warning of the Communion, are to be printed at the end of the Office.

The Invocation in the Prayer of Consecration is to be printed as a distinct paragraph.

In the next to the last rubric, at the end of the Office, the word though is substituted for if.

VI. IN THE PRIVATE BAPTISM OF INFANTS.

The first form of certification reads as follows, the rubric before it ending with the words, In which case, all standing, he shall say thus:

I CERTIFY you, that ac

cording to the due and prescribed Order of the

Church, at such a time, and at such a place, before divers witnesses, I baptized this Child, who is now by Baptism incorporated into the Christian Church: for our Lord Jesus Christ doth

not deny his grace and mercy unto such Infants, but most lovingly doth call them unto him, as the holy Gospel doth witness to our comfort,

The second form of certification ends with the words doth witness to our comfort, and is followed by the rubric:

Then the Minister shall say as followeth.

VII. IN THE CATECHISM.

The word again is inserted in the Creed, as in Morning and Evening Prayer.

VIII. IN THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK.

The following rubric is added at the end:

This Office may be used with aged and bed-ridden persons, or such as are not able to attend the public Ministration in Church, substituting the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel for the Day, for those appointed above.

IX. IN THE FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED AT SEA.

The title before the third Prayer is changed so as to read, Prayers to be used in all ships in storms at sea. The prayers that have reference to a storm and those that have reference to the enemy are grouped separately; and the Lord's Prayer is placed immediately after the Absolution, with the rubric:

Then shall they together say the Lord's Prayer.

The forms belonging to thanksgiving after a storm and those belonging to thanksgiving after a victory are arranged under distinct headings.

X. IN THE VISITATION

OF PRISONERS.

The words Minister and Answer are omitted before the Versicles; and the Prayers are placed together after the Miserere (the printing of which is omitted), the following being substituted for the Collect:

GOD, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive; Receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us; for the honour of Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

After the title, A Form of Prayer for Persons under Sentence of Death, the rubric reads:

When a criminal is under sentence of death, the Minister shall proceed to exhort him after this form, or other like.

In place of the rubric after the Blessing the following rubric and notice are inserted:

At the time of Execution, the Minister shall use such devotions as he shall think proper. Notice. It is judged best

that the criminal should not make any public profession or declaration.

The Prayer for Imprisoned Debtors is omitted.

IN THE FORM OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL.

1. The rest of the former title is omitted.

2. A change is made in the second of the Intercessory Prayers, so that it reads thus:

Grant, O Lord, that they who at this place shall in their own persons renew the promises and vows of their Baptism, and be confirmed by the Bishop, may receive such a measure of thy Holy Spirit, that they may be enabled faithfully to fulfil the same, and grow in grace unto their lives' end. Amen.

3. Alternative Lessons are provided, as follows: First Lesson, Genesis xxviii. v. 10; Second Lesson, Revelation xxi. v. 10.

4. The rubric prescribing part of a metrical Psalm after Morning Prayer is omitted.

On the day designated for the new Incumbent's Institution, at the usual hour of Morning Prayer, the Bishop, or the Institutor appointed by him, attended by the new Incumbent, and by the other Clergy present, shall enter the Chancel. Then all the Clergy present standing in the Chancel or Choir, except the Bishop, or the Priest who acts as Institutor, who shall go within the rails of the Altar;

3. All reference to Institution by a Standing Committee, or to the Institution

of an Assistant Minister, is omitted.

4. The rubrics are modified so as to provide for the Bishop as Institutor, though he may appoint a Priest to act for him in the service, and the Letter of Institution may be read by another.

5. In the rubric before the form of delivery of the books, the word State is changed to Diocesan.

6. The Anthem Laudate Nomen is omitted; and it is provided that in its place Psalm lxviii. or Psalm xxvi. shall be said or sung.