rship-forms--which have
always been the methods used by the Church as far back as we have any
evidence. But from time to time alterations have been made in the
details. The Lord's Prayer has, for example, been used as a key-note
for Praise without its Doxology; or Confession has been placed amongst
the Prayers; or Psalms have been more used, and Lessons less used. In
spite of such variations, the general principles may be traced in all
Church Services; and much interesting study may be spent on the
comparison of our Services with those which preceded them.

We have already said something (Chap. II.) about this, and when we
study these two Services in detail, it is very important to remember
that they grew out of the older Services. The daily Psalms and Lessons
{25} might be rearranged, the number of versicles increased or
diminished, the rule about varying the saying of a Creed, or an
Alleluia, might be altered: but it is the same pattern with the same
methods of worship now, as it was when the Services were all said in
Latin and when each Diocese in this country had some differences from
all the other Dioceses.

We will now proceed to consider these two Services in their details.

THE ORDER FOR
MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER,
DAILY TO BE SAID AND USED THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR.

_The Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed Place
of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel: except it shall be otherwise
determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels shall remain
as they have done in times past._

_And here is to be noted, that such ornaments of the Church, and of the
Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration, shall be
retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the
authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward
the Sixth._

The importance of the above heading has been lost sight of, through the
manner of its printing. In most Prayer Books it will be found on a
page by itself or at the foot of a Table of the Golden Numbers. It is
really the heading of a chapter which contains both {26} Morning and
Evening Service. Until the last Revision of the Book in 1662, the
chapter containing Morning and Evening Prayer was closed after the
Athanasian Creed with a Rubric _Thus endeth the Order of Morning and
Evening Prayer throughout the whole Year_. Although that Rubric has
been omitted, this heading includes both Services in one Chapter.