A YEAR OF WORSHIP; FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND HOMES. By G. L. DEMAREST. BOSTON: UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1885. 9920 1885 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY THE UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PRESSWORK BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, UNIVERSITY PRESS. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. HIS volume has been prepared especially for Universalist Sunday schools our liturgies. Provision is made for each Sunday in the year, with services applicable to festival and other special occasions. Brevity has been consulted, but not at the expense of the great purpose of a liturgy: a help to devotion and spiritual training. We have attempted to utilize, for benefit to children, as many devotional psalms, with a few passages from the prophets, as we well could within the limit of a year; and also to produce, by way of Gospel lessons, a large number of scenes from the life of the Saviour. It was thought best not to distribute the Hymns throughout the Liturgy, but to gather them into a separate department. The Hymns suitable for the several services are indicated. In preparing the "Psalms" and "Gospels," we have felt free to select such portions, and to place them in such order, as seemed desirable for the purpose above set forth. We have not scrupled, when the occasion demanded, to substitute for pronouns the nouns for which they stand, and sometimes have changed the person and number of verbs and their subjects, and sometimes the tenses; but in no case, we believe, is there a perversion of the original sentiment. The "Gospels" are made up from a “Harmony,” such particulars being taken from each writer as it was supposed would make the narrative most clear. Only a few of the special services have the Order set forth in detail. order recommended for common observance is as follows: The 1. Singing, either of a Hymn, or, if convenient, from the singing-book used in addition to this Manual. If such a one is desired, we suggest "Songs of Joy," issued by the publishers of this volume. 2. The Psalm, the leader using the paragraphs printed in Roman letters, the others responding with those printed in Italics. Minor pauses, better to ensure reading in concert, are marked thus: (|). During this exercise let 3. The Gospel, to be read by the leader 4. Prayer. Let all, standing, join by voice in this exercise throughout. If any prefer otherwise, let all say the Amen audibly. Let the Infant Class pronounce the Lord's Prayer immediately following. Minor pauses are marked, as before. Let voices be distinct but subdued. 5. A Hymn: one of those assigned to the service in the Index. Let it always be a Hymn, that children may accustom themselves to devotional 6. Addresses: which may well be upon some topic connected with the 8. Singing, or other General Exercise. The "Winchester Profession" may be repeated in concert, or the Commandments in response. They are provided for such use. They may be employed at alternate services, or the Profession may be generally used, substituting the Commandments for one 9. Benediction, or Ascription, for which several forms are set forth. We supplement the Services with a few forms for home use by very little In submitting these Services to the test of use we invoke the blessing of the G. L. D. I XI.-MARCH. XII.-MARCIL XIII.-MARCH OR APRIL. XIV.-PALM SUNDAY. XV.-EASTER. XVI.-SPRING. XVII. APRIL. XVIII.APRIL. XXII.-MAY. XXIII. MAY OR JUNE. XXIV.-JUNE. XXV.-WHITSUNDAY. XXVI.-CHILDREN'S SUN DAY. XXVII.-SUMMER. XXVIII.-INDEPENDENCE. XXIX. JULY. - XXXVII. XL.AUTUMN. XLIV.- OCTOBER. XLV. NOVEMBER. XLVI.- ALL SOULS. XLVII. - NOVEMBER. XLVIII. - NOVEMBER. XLIX. THANKSGIVING. L.-DECEMBER. LIII. CHRISTMAS. For a Funeral Service, either for child or for adult, Service XLI. may be used; or if it be required on another day than Sunday, and at some other place than the Sunday-school room, use the Psalm numbered 4, the Gospel, and the Prayer, with such singing as may be convenient. If an Anniversary Service is desired, other than that appointed for Children's Sunday (XXVI.), No. LIV. may be used. For Rural Excursion, No. XXVII. may serve. There can be little difficulty in distributing the Services through the year. The following are fixed: :- I. New Year, for the first Sunday in January. XXVIII. Independence, for the first Sunday in July. |