Excerpt from The American Prayer-Book Revisions of 1785 and 1789: A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Philadelphia, on the Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity, October 16, 1892
"There was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne." - Rev. viii.:3.
It is most fitting that, in connection with the consideration of the "Standard " Prayer Book of 1892, by the General Convention now in session in Baltimore, we should review the liturgical work our fathers did, and note the guiding principles which gave us the Prayer-Book of our first hundred years of life and growth.
Within the walls of Christ Church, Philadelphia, there gathered day after day the Churchmen of 1785 and 1789, debating, first, the changes rendered necessary to make the services "conformable to the principles of the American Revolution and the constitutions of the several States;" and secondly, the further alterations in the Book of Common Prayer which took shape in the "Proposed Book;" and then, in 1789, the practical return to the English Prayer-Book as a model and guide in forming our present book. We may well and wisely review the work thus done.
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