Alcuin Club Tracts IX PRAYER BOOK REVISION THE IRREDUCIBLE MINIMUM OF OR ANAPHORÆ OF By ATHELSTAN RILEY, M.A. Seigneur de la Trinité Member of the Canterbury House of Laymen, and A. R. MOWBRAY & CO. LTD. OXFORD: 9 High Street 1911 [All rights reserved] Compl. Sets 3-22-30 LIST OF CONTENTS PAGE THE COLLECT, EPISTLE, AND GOSPEL FOR THOSE WHO ARE FALLEN THE CANON OF THE LITURGY OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH 39 PRAYER BOOK REVISION PRA INTRODUCTION RAYER Book Revision may be regarded from two very definite points of view, that of the ecclesiastical statesman, and that of the liturgical student. With the former, as members of the Alcuin Club, we have nothing to do; those of us who have any influence in the councils of the Church of England have probably weighed the balance for and against Revision; have come to definite conclusions as to whether the time is propitious for such a venture, and have publicly expressed ourselves thereon. These matters are quite foreign to our present purpose; the service the Alcuin Club can render is of a different nature. When any serious liturgical propositions are put before Churchmen we can offer the contribution of their scientific and dispassionate examination; and that this is the first contribution of the kind is due to the fact that no such propositions have up to the present time been put forward by any considerable body of Churchmen, official or non-official. The labours of the Convocations, especially those of the Lower House of Canterbury are not forgotten, but they are of a kind which challenge the examination of the ecclesiastical politician or the theologian, not of the liturgical student, and, indeed, their title to a liturgical revision has been disclaimed by some of their promoters. It seems not improbable that the whole B |