MANUAL OF PRAYERS FOR SCHOOLS, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, AND PRIVATE FAMILIES COMPILED WITHOUT MUTILATION FROM THE HOLY BIBLE AND BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER BY THE REV. C. A. JOHNS, B.A. F.L.S. LONDON LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS 1861 100.c. 53. PREFACE. THE numerous Manuals of Family Prayer which have hitherto been published are, for the most part, either private compositions, or adaptations from the Prayer Book. Among the former it is rare to find one which does not contain statements of speculative doctrine, shreds of sermons, passionate remonstrances, curt aphorisms, and passages of Scripture wrested to bear a meaning other than the natural one. The adaptations from the Prayer Book, though liable to none of these objections, are, to many persons, not satisfactory; for, though the words of the Liturgy only are employed, an attempt is made to weave into a continuous whole detached sentences |