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Title: The Christian Use of the Psalter

Author: A. R. Whitham

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THE CHRISTIAN USE
OF THE PSALTER

BY THE

REV. A. R. WHITHAM, M.A.

_Principal of Culham Training College, and formerly
Vice-Principal of Cuddesdan College_

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PREFACE

This little book, based on three Lectures delivered to the S. Paul's
Lecture Society in January, 1908, is not intended so much for the
scholar as for the plain man who goes to Church and loves the Prayer
Book, but finds the Psalms sometimes puzzling. They are certainly the
most difficult, though the most characteristic, part of the daily
offices of the Church. What has been attempted in these Lectures is
not to explain them in detail, but to suggest the broad lines o