Traditional Ceremonial And Customs Connected With The Scottish Liturgy Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Traditional Ceremonial and Customs Connected With the Scottish Liturgy Several friends have pressed upon the writer the desirability of adding a Short appendix of instructions for the clergy who wish to observe the more desirable of the old usages when celebrating the Holy Communion at the present day. But for many reasons this has not been done. It has been the writer's intention to present an impartial account of what has come down to us, whether good or bad, without selection; to produce a book for the liturgical student and not a directory for use in church. Moreover, the surroundings of the Church's worship in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obviously included many things which ought rather to be avoided than imitated, and the writer did not wish to incur the charge of attempting to revive the bad as well as the good - a charge which experience has shown to be very readily levelled against one who ventures to suggest that any ceremonial mistakes have been made by the revivalists of the last half century. At the same time it is impossible to be blind to the practical value Of many of these half-forgotten traditions, and the clergy to whom the principles professed by the compilers Of Our liturgy appeal, will not find it difficult to refuse the evil and choose the good among the practices handed down from the days in which those compilers lived. 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.