Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Order of Worship: With Forms of Prayer for Divine Service
I wish to submit some models of public prayer which are direct, simple, scriptural and devotional. Many spoken prayers are indirect, obscure, unscriptural and undevotional. It does not at all follow that such prayers create or suggest true devotion in those who are expected to join in them, because the Speaker is warmed into a glow of intellectual fervor in making them. In places where there are no churches, and where, except perhaps in a sunday-school, there are no public religious services, a Superintendent of a sunday-school, or any other person, can, with these forms, maintain public' services without the necessity for extempore prayers, from which many good people shrink or refrain. There is, however, a place for special or extempore prayers in every service. A young preacher, who has Spent more time in learning how to make sermons than in learning how to offer prayers in appropriate language, may be aided in his pulpit ministrations by the use of these prayers, to which he may add others of his Own composing, written and read, or spoken from memory or extempore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
