THE Book of Common Prayer, INTERPRETED BY ITS HISTORY. BY Clement Moore REV. C. M. BUTLER, D. D. RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, WASHINGTON CITY, D. C. SECOND EDITION, COMPLETE. WASHINGTON: WM. M. MORRISON, PUBLISHER. Entered according to act of Congress In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the GIDEON, Printer. Dedication. TO THE REV. ALEXANDER H. VINTON, D. D. I dedicate these pages anew to you, my dear friend and brother, not for the purpose of seeming to claim the sanction of your name to all their statements, but that I may thus acknowledge my obligations, both in heart and mind, to that friendship which is the pleasantest memory of my life in the Theological Seminary, and from which, during my recent residence in Boston, I derived yet greater pleasure and advantage. Now that our fields of labor are so far apart, and that we can no longer, in person, hold sweet counsel and walk together in the house of God as friends, you must allow me, in addition to inscribing your name upon this page, to indulge my feelings of affection, gratitude, and respect, by testifying to my readers how much I am indebted to communion with you for my love of those great, simple, and blessed truths, which it is the object. of these pages to unfold. With great affection and regard, Your friend and brother, WASHINGTON, October 29, 1849. |