Revised Book of Common Prayer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 28, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 21.

Revised Book of Common Prayer

THE Protestant Episcopal church of America has a revised “Book of Common Prayer,” and one of the very important questions decided in it is that “it is optional whether the celebrant shall use the entire morning service in the evening.” A new feast, the Transfiguration, is added to the calendar; and in the Apostles’ Creed, instead of the sentence “He descended into hell,” churches may use, “He went to the place of departed spirits.” Well, probably the way to spiritualism is opened wide enough by that, so that further revision will not be necessary.